News Powerful VLC media player lands on Chromebooks The browser-based operating system gets top-notch local media playback.

Some VLC media player users have reported the video they play is sputtering, skipping or lagging during the video playback. This issue is mainly observed in HD video, a 1080p MKV video file. Here ...

VLC for Android can handle a wide range of video formats. I tested some MP4, MKV, DiVX, and Xvid files, and the media player was able to open them all. But the app struggled to play some of those ...

Our Verdict As always, VLC is the free media player you want on your system…but the differences in 2.1, while real and welcome, are hard to spot.

A patch does not yet exist for a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in VLC Media Player that could enable remote code execution.

VideoLAN has released an updated version of its VLC Player to fix over a dozen bugs. Two high-risk vulnerabilities in the VLC media player could allow an adversary to craft a malicious .MKV video ...

VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos VideoLAN shows off the creation and translation of subtitles in more than 100 languages, all offline.

The VLC Media Player app, which was first released for the iPad in September and lets you play practically any video file, has been updated today to support the iPhone and iPod Touch.

If using VLC media player doesn’t fix the problem, then it’s probably a problem with the .mkv file itself. In this case, you may want to convert .mkv files to MP4.

Moreover, the VLC Media Player update implements several bug fixes including the playlist live loop. The improvement also rolls out to MKV media files where new support is added to the DVBSub.

Just with a specially formatted media file (using the MKV container) could do a range of things from crashing the media player to manipulating files on the victim's computer.