VLC Surpasses 5 Billion Downloads, Starts VLC 4.0 Dev

The Videolan project. project since February 2005. About 4.4 billion uploads falls on the VLC assembly for the Windows platform, 369 million – MacOS, 245 million – Android, 71 million – iOS and 6.7 million per archive with source texts. The published data do not take into account the VLC load for Linux, since most Linux users VLC receives this video player through regular repositories of their distributions. The most popular VLC version is 3.0.16, which was loaded 416 million times (for comparison, the latest issue 3.0.20 was loaded 381 million times, 3.0.19 – 50 million, and release 3.0.0 – 6 million).

Additionally reports about the creation of the VLC version compiled in Webassembly format to embed a player on sites. The development of VLC 4.0 is also in the development, in which the base part of VLC will be rewritten, a new interface will appear that simplify navigation by multimedia files, integration with streaming platforms and added support fast channels (Free Advertising Supported Streaming Television) and Online Translations that allow you to watch films and television shows for free due to advertising.