Discover hidden VLC Media Player features that let you stream online videos, convert files, use your webcam, improve playback ...

Most people open VLC, hit play, and call it a day. Turns out, that's barely scratching the surface.

MP3 has been the most popular lossy audio file format for decades, but AAC is now a popular alternative. Here's what you need ...

Some video downloaders save videos as .ts files instead of normal .mp4 files. Those files can lag in VLC, behave badly in other popular media players, and feel even worse after moving them to a phone.

While plenty of fantastic streaming services exist, everyone knows the pain of your favorite movie suddenly becoming unavailable. Owning your media solves this problem, but you'll need to choose a ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. DVD collections don't age gracefully. Even if you've kept your discs in cases and away from sunlight, time still takes its toll, scratches build up, layers ...

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...

A CRDOWNLOAD file appears when you are downloading something via Google Chrome. It is a temporary file used to store incomplete downloads, and you can often recover or open a CRDOWNLOAD file safely ...

I used Whisper AI, OpenAI’s free and offline speech-to-text tool, to generate subtitles for any movie by installing it locally with Python, PyTorch, and ffmpeg. Once set up, you just run a simple ...

Saeed Wazir is a South Africa-based journalist with over 15 years of IT experience and a love for reading and writing. He joined Pocket-Lint after writing tech articles for Dot Esports and Screen Rant ...