Multimedia player "VLC" achieved 1 billion download

A player who can use it for free, can play any file, and does not need a codec "VLC"Has achieved a cumulative download of 1 billion.

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VLC media player is a free and open source media player developed by VideoLAN project. There is absolutely no display of advertisements, etc., MP3, music CD, streaming etc. everything can be played, most of which can be reproduced without installing codec separately.


Download statistics are taken from the time of February 2005, VLC version 0.7.2.


According to the statistics, from the version 0.7.2 to the current 2.0.1, the cumulative total of 988,366,345 downloads for Windows, 132,295,56 downloads for Mac, and 3,445,988 downloads for Linux, totaling 1 billion It became 51,433,569 downloads, and it totally cumulatively topped 1 billion downloads.

Looking at each version, the most downloaded version was 1.1.11 released in July 2011, for a total of 188,854,441 downloads for each OS, followed by many It is 0.817, which was released in December 2006, has become 117.16 million 6207 downloads.

By the way, in the archive, the source code from version 0.1.99 to the latest version is released.


The installation itself is not difficult, if you associate an audio file with a video file for the time being, most of the files can be played, so it is also recommended for people who are not very familiar with PCs.