This week’s App of the Week takes a fresh look at VLC 3.0.22, from dark mode on Plasma and Cosmic to niche perks like proper playback of classic Doom and Hexen music files.
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VLC’s core developer and VideoLAN president, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, was awarded the European SFS Award this year at Italy’s premier free software conference.
The folks who develop Helwan O.S say it's "designed by devs for devs and creators," but our Larry Cafiero says it's a distro that it would probably fit about anybody.
Everything you ever wanted to know about VLC but were afraid to ask.
The Video Screening Room
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VideoLAN (also called VLC) is a very popular media player available for all major technology platforms. Work is progressing towards a 3.0 release and in this new video you can meet some of the developers working to make that happen.
For the past 10 years, Phil has been working at a public library in the Washington D.C.-area, helping youth and adults use the 28 public Linux stations the library offers seven days a week. He also writes for MAKE magazine, Opensource.com and TechSoup Libraries. Suggest videos by contacting Phil on Twitter or at pshapiro@his.com.