Let’s just rip off the Band-Aid and get the bad news out of the way: The standard version of Windows 8 won’t include Windows Media Center or the ability to play DVDs by default. Wait! Put down those ...

Until date I thought VLC was just a video player, but I was wrong!

NOTE: Many of these VLC tricks use the same dialogs, so rather than repeat the same steps every time, I'll be doing a thorough step-by-step once and then highlighting only the differences in the ...

The world of open source software has ample choices for editing andmanipulating audio and video media files. But when you just want putyour feet up and relax, fewer really ideal options are available.