VLC crosses 7 billion downloads

In our satellite of costly streaming platforms, the precise escaped and offline VLC media player, developed by the non-profit VideoLAN, has crossed 7 cardinal downloads crossed each platforms.

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the president and pb developer of VLC, sent this update successful an email. This milestone comes astir 18 months aft the app breached the 6 cardinal download people successful January 2025.

Kempf mentioned that the institution precocious ported VLC to Amazon’s caller Vega OS for TVs. The institution said it is besides moving connected supporting each different platforms and codecs, and that VLC is preparing for the VLC 4 release, but it is taking clip successful development.

Last year, VideoLAN had teased AI-powered translation and subtitles utilizing section models, but it is not wide if those features were ever released.