Useful guides and tutorials related to codecs and multimedia.

Play YouTube links in your foobar2000 playlist with one free component, plus the yt-dlp setting that fixes streams that suddenly stop working.

Five free video players ranked for a TV remote rather than a touchscreen, with the surround-sound catches and the stock app your box should stop opening.

Every feature Microsoft has quietly stripped from Windows Media Player since 2009, in one timeline, plus what still works and what to move to.

A plain comparison of USB sticks and portable SSDs on real measured speed, capacity, lifespan and cost, with a straight answer for each kind of buyer.

The Windows players and codec packs that stopped updating, when each one really ended, and the small maintained stack that replaced all of them.

A five-minute pass through the Windows 10 and 11 privacy switches that actually matter, including Recall, and the two old tips that stopped working.

A plain-English comparison of Opus and Ogg Vorbis, covering which one sounds better, which one older hardware still plays, and how to open either file.

Get genuine Windows 11 without spending a dime through these verified free methods that Microsoft officially supports.

YouTube captions fall back to Roboto rather than being fixed to it, so here is where to get the font free and how to match the styling around it.

What AI slop is, what it looks like inside a video or audio file, and how to tell a bad source from a missing codec.