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, ...

VirtualDub is a free digital video application that you can use to make simple edits to footage. The program accepts digital video in the AVI, DIVX, MPG, MPV, M1V or DAT file format. Although ...

While tech giants kept building bloated media apps, a scrappy open-source project called VideoLan quietly ate their lunch by playing every weird file you could throw at it. Here's how to get the most ...

Several Microsoft PowerPoint users have reported that it doesn’t let them insert a video into their presentation slides. They keep getting the “PowerPoint cannot ...

You can convert a video to an MP3 file using Adobe Media Encoder, which can help save you storage space on your device. You can download a YouTube video as an MP3 ...

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