Forget streaming from Netflix and all that jazz. Chromecast can play back MP4 files (and other formats) from your PC or Mac like a champ. Crave contributor Christopher MacManus regularly spends his ...

GOM is an alternate player for Windows Media Player which smoothly and supports both 32-bit as well as 64-bit operating systems. Its strength includes the ability to play some broken media files and ...

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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, ...

Apple giveth with one hand, and taketh away with the other. Leopard has 300 new features, but 10.5's otherwise greatly improved Front Row lacks one small (but important) feature that its Tiger ...

We live in a world where technology is progressing rapidly and as it flourishes, the use of multimedia blooms. Video files have long been the backbone of entertainment, and there is a high chance that ...

If you’re here reading Gizmodo, there’s a good chance you have a hard drive full of video somewhere. And you also probably have a PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii. If those two things aren’t working together for ...

4K, 3D, HD, AVCHD, BD, DVD…video comes in myriad formats, and you want to play them all. If you're serious about home theater PC, a keystone of your setup is the software you use to play discs, ...

Update: This article was originally published in 2011. The Android media player landscape has changed quite a bit since then, and as of 2018 I’m personally using VLC for most of my local playback ...

If you download videos with BitTorrent, you've probably come across a few that are compressed inside an RAR file, which can be a bit of a pain. It turns out, however, that you can easily watch ...

Whenever I try to play a video file (MPEG, AVI, etc.) on my Win2k system, the entire computer freezes. No, not a BSOD, rather the mouse cursor and everything on screen freezes...<BR><BR>I've tried ...