TweakTown

Steam has 400,000 trailers and Valve had to re-encode all of them for new video player update

TL;DR: Valve updated Steam's video player to be more bandwidth-efficient and compatible across devices like Steam Deck and mobiles by re-encoding 400,000 game trailers in multiple resolutions. This ...
Android Authority

I still love VLC, but this lightweight video player changed the game for me

VLC Player has been my go-to video app for years, dating back to the good ol’ Windows XP days. That loyalty progressed to Android, and I still use it across desktop and mobile for my video content ...
PC Gamer

Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player

Video playback on old computers was a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred ...
9to5google

YouTube rolling out video player redesign, other ‘expressive and intuitive’ updates

The YouTube family of apps continue to have their own design language that’s distinct from Google services. YouTube is now rolling out a redesign of the video player across Android, iOS, web, and TV, ...