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VLC Media Player 1.0.3 (Mac)

VLC initially VideoLAN Client is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Multimedia, Apple Macintosh, VideoLAN Project, Digital Video, Digital Media, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-01

VLC Media Player 1.0.3 (Windows)

VLC initially VideoLAN Client is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Multimedia, Microsoft Windows, VideoLAN Project, Digital Video, Digital Media, Networking, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-10-31

VideoLAN Client 0.6.2 (Mac)

This open-source project is a complete media player that supports several different media formats including DivX, VCD, DVD, and MPEG files to name a few. It is also fully cross-platform. Version 0.6.2 features: video outputs are recycled if possible, this removes any 'flicker' between two similar video files: Fixed...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, VideoLAN Project, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2003-10-17

Additional Resources

OpenSolaris 2009.06: Getting Better All The Time

The June 2009 (2009.06) release of OpenSolaris provides a solid Open Source GNOME desktop experience like that of a modern Linux distribution combined with the scalability and stability of UNIX. Over the weekend, I had the chance to take a look at Sun...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris 2009.06, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-07

'Highly critical' vulnerabilities in VLC media player

A pair of "highly critical" vulnerabilities in the cross-platform VLC Media Player could put millions of users at risk of remote code execution attacks, according to a warning from security researchers. The issues, reported in versions 0.5.0 through 0.9.5, could let hackers take complete control of compromised...

Tags: Vulnerability, Buffer-overflow, Media Player, Media Players, Security, Digital Music, Digital Media, Viruses And Worms, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-07

Streaming .avi and MPEG files

Streaming .avi and MPEG filesIt's becoming embarassing"MacOS X comes with a streaming server capable of handling all the major formats so if this is something you don't do a lot of, get an older Mac with lots of RAM and you'll soon be in business."No Quicktime Streaming Server (available with...

Tags: Digital video, Corporate communications, Digital media, Digital music, MPEG-2, video, MPEG-4, MPEG, Apple QuickTime, MPEG-1, server

Discussion threads 2005-10-04

10-Gigabit Ethernet comes alive

10-Gigabit Ethernet comes alivewhat is the point?can someone please explain to me why there is any such insane need for 10 gigabit to the DESKTOP, and for that matter, what normal every day use there is for even 1 gig to the desktop?with the fastest 15000 rpm scsi drives only...

Tags: Desktops, Thin clients, Ethernet, SAN, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, desktop, multicasting, thin client, disk, clustering, server

Discussion threads 2004-03-15