The ability to play virtually any file type without external codecs and cornucopia of controls makes VLC a must-have download. If you don’t have VLC, aka the VideoLAN Player, installed on your system, ...

File extensions are the characters that precede the last period of a file name. It helps us find the type of file we are trying to open i.e. whether it is an audio file, video file, or simply a ...

Want to know how to play a weird video file on your Mac? Don’t worry – there’s probably a simple solution. There are dozens of video file formats, with more being added all the time, and it’s ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

Figure 1. Essence and metadata are contained in a wrapper. The things you see and hear, along with information about those things, are contained in a file. Click here to see an enlarged diagram. It is ...

WMP shipped with recent editions of Windows, and it can play anything with the proper DirectShow codec. It’s also a decent librarian. Alas, poor Winamp! We knew it well. One of our favorite audio and ...

A file extension, or file name extension, is the letters immediately shown after the last period in a file name. For example, the file extension.txt has an extension of .txt. This extension allows the ...

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