This article appears in the February/March 2012 issue of Streaming Media magazine, the annual Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook. When I was 6 years old, I had metal-capped front teeth, a lazy eye, ...

If you download videos with BitTorrent, you've probably come across a few that are compressed inside an RAR file, which can be a bit of a pain. It turns out, however, that you can easily watch ...

Personal media player software maker Plex says it’s now easier for mobile users on Android to play any video file saved on their device within its app. The move will enable it to better challenge VLC, ...

If you've ever tried to search for software that can convert audio and video files on Windows, you might know how hard it can be to find dedicated solutions that are actually free and function as ...

VLC Media Player is an open source audio and video-playing program developed by the VideoLAN team. VLC Media Player has support for MP4, WMV, AVI and DIVX video files and it also supports MP3, AAC, ...

Of course, the easiest way for iOS and macOS owners to play videos on the Apple TV is to use AirPlay. As well as allowing you to play local files on your iOS device, AirPlay also lets you stream video ...