A few days ago, a German security agency CERT-Bund revealed it had found a Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw in the popular open-source, VLC Media Player allowing hackers to install, modify, or run any ...

This is a simple XML parser that I created so that I can easily move my playlists from iTunes over to VLC media player without having to go through the hassle of exporting playlists. If I have the ...

This is a lightweight C++ frontend library for the VLC/VLM (VideoLan Manager) API. The goal was to create a robust and simple to use library for desktop streaming, even though its not limited to that ...

A serious vulnerability in the LIVE555 Streaming Media RTSP server affects popular applications, including VLC, MPlayer and others, Cisco Talos has discovered. A serious vulnerability in the LIVE555 ...

Two vulnerabilities that could potentially be exploited for arbitrary code execution exist in libavcodec, a free and open-source audio/video codecs library used by several popular media players. Two ...

Update 7/24: VideoLAN took to Twitter earlier this morning to clarify that the security issue discovered by CERT-Bund is not as severe as reported. VideoLAN says the issue was in a 3rd party library, ...

A security researcher has warned of a serious vulnerability in VideoLAN's VLC Player (VLC), a popular media playback tool, for which no patch is yet available. First released in February 2001 and ...

A security researcher has warned of a serious vulnerability in VideoLAN's VLC Player (VLC), a popular media playback tool, for which no patch is yet available. First released in February 2001 and ...

VLC just hit the 2.0 milestone, with it bringing a ton of behind-the scenes improvements to video playback on systems with multiple cores and fast GPUs, plus a number of new supported formats. Mac ...