Adding an animated desktop to your Windows workspace can increase your computer's visual appeal. You could, for example, set up your animated desktop to display a slideshow of family photos, or to ...

Since the demise of DreamScene with Windows Vista, users have been denied the option of having moving pictures as their desktop backdrop, but the hugely useful VLC Media Player provides something of a ...

VLC is easily one of our favorite media players (and yours too). While it can handle nearly every movie you throw at it, it can also do so much more. You don’t need to be a power user to understand ...

Watching movies and TV shows on your computer is easy, but if you do a lot of downloading or ripping, you need a video player that's lightweight, can handle virtually anything you throw at it, whether ...

VideoLAN's VLC, which is largely considered the media player that "plays everything," has returned to the Apple App Store. The new releases are the result of over a year of work from volunteers on the ...

Google’s $35 Chromecast has slowly built up its app portfolio since it was released, and now the device looks like it will be getting another huge service implemented. According to a post on the ...

The open source media player and streaming media server, VLC, will add support to Google's Chromecast streaming dongle. Felix Paul Kühne, VideoLAN lead developer on VLC for OS X and iOS, recently ...

At long last, the Windows 8 Metro environment has a decent media player that can play MKV files: VLC for Windows 8! VLC Media Player Beta for Windows 8 is a complete reimagining of VLC for Microsoft's ...