VLC Anniversary - One Billion Downloads

Statistics downloads open free cross-platform video player VLC is on the site videolan.org since 2005. These statistics include downloads in source or compiled form for Windows and MacOS, but do not include installations from repositories on Linux systems, so the real numbers are even greater.

VLC works on most modern operating systems and does not require installation of additional codecs. The VLC interface is translated into 78 languages. It can be used as a media server for streaming - initially this was the main purpose of VLC. In 1996, several École centrale Paris students began an educational project dedicated to streaming video over the network. It consisted of two parts - VideoLAN Server (VLS) and VideoLAN Client (VLC). In 2001, the source of the VideoLAN project was published under the GPL license. Version 2.0 released this March

In addition to the video player, the VideoLAN team has several other projects for professional users and developers. At the end of 2009, the development of the non-linear video editor VideoLAN Media Creator (VLMC) began.