Windows Media Player Legacy loses skins on Windows 11 24H2 and later from November 10, 2026, as Microsoft pushes its modern Media Player.

With the arrival of the Fire TV Stick 4K, Amazon is discontinuing its older Fire OS-powered Fire TV Stick 4K Select and Plus ...

The bandwidth requirement is hefty, but if you can meet it, it's really smooth ...

Media Player Classic Home Cinema skips the clutter without skimping on the features you actually use.

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VLC has crossed 7 billion downloads. In a media world built around monthly subscriptions, bundled ecosystems, and disappearing catalogs, that number feels almost strange: a free, offline media player ...

A little-known VLC feature lets you open supported video and audio streams straight from a URL. Pair that with the IPTV-org GitHub project and you instantly have thousands of free TV channels. Most ...

Bitmovin has released the latest version of its Encoder, with new HEVC and AV1 codecs, Media over QUIC (MOQ) and integration with AI agents. Bitmovin Encoder Version 3 introduces new codecs tuned for ...

Two security vulnerabilities in VLC Media Player could allow attackers to corrupt heap memory or disclose sensitive data from a victim’s memory. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-56711 and CVE-2026-73324 ...

A lightweight Stremio-style streaming client for the Miyoo Mini Plus running OnionOS. See docs/roadmap.md for milestone status, acceptance criteria, sequencing, deferred features, and known risks. For ...

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