The VideoLAN project reported on exceeding the milestone of three billion downloads of VLC video players recorded by a statistics collection system that has been running on the project's servers since February 2005.
The achievement was celebrated at the CES 2019 World Electronics Show, held these days in Las Vegas. VideoLAN developers deployed an information panel at their exhibition booth comprised of various smartphones and tablets, dynamically reflecting the status of the download counter.
VLC Media Player is a highly portable media player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg,) as well as DVD, VCD and various transmission protocols. It can also be used as a server to broadcast in unicast or multicast on IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC developers are celebrating
About 2.4 billion downloads represent the VLC build for the Windows platform, 267 million for macOS, 164 million for Android, 29 million for iOS and 6.2 million for the source text file.
The published data does not take into account the download of VLC for Linux, as most Linux VLC users get this video player through their distributions regular repositories.
The most popular version of VLC is 2.2.1 version which got around 202 million times (For comparison, the latest version 3.0.5 was downloaded 3.5 million times, 3.0.4 - 86 million, and version 3.0.0 - 6 million).
In addition, the project released a fix version of the VLC 3.0.6 media player, which removed the major backward changes introduced in version 3.0.5 and interrupted the normal processing of DVD subtitles.
Additionally, the new version adds support for decoding AV1 streams with 12-bit color depth and improved HDR support for the AV1 video encoding format.
Developers They also announced plans to integrate AirPlay technology support into the February release of VLC for the Android platform., which will allow users to send videos from mobile devices to Apple TV media players.
How to install VLC Media Player on Linux?
If you are interested in being able to install this multimedia player on your system, you can do it using one of the following methods according to the Linux distribution you are using
For those who are Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and derivative users, just type the following in the terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc browser-plugin-vlc
While for Those who are users of Arch Linux, Manjaro, Antergos or any distribution derived from Arch Linux, we must type:
sudo pacman -S vlc
If you are a user of the KaOS Linux distribution, the installation command is the same as for Arch Linux.
Now for those who are users of any version of openSUSE, they only have to type in the terminal the following to install:
sudo zypper install vlc
For those who are Fedora users and any derivative of it, they must type the following:
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install vlc
Installation by Snap and Flatpak
For The rest of the Linux distributions, we can install this software with the help of the Flatpak or Snap packages. We only have to have the support to install applications of these technologies.
Si want to install with the help of Snap, we just have to type the following command in the terminal:
sudo snap install vlc
To install the candidate version of the program, do it with:
sudo snap install vlc --candidate
Finally, if you want to install the beta version of the program you must type:
sudo snap install vlc --beta
If you installed the application from Snap and want to update to the new version, you just have to type:
sudo snap refresh vlc
Finally for Those who want to install from Flatpak, do so with the following command:
flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.videolan.VLC.flatpakref
And if they had already installed and want to update they must type:
flatpak --user update org.videolan.VLC
Congratulations to those guys. Since I can remember VLC has always been there, it is an institution, it has remained afloat and is a benchmark for quality.
I agree and agree with this comment!
VLC, you have not chosen to create an executable file even if it is only for 64 architecture ... it would be great, just like the folks at kdenlive do.
-SIDE, I use SeaMonkey and it hangs on this page, there must be some javascript screwing around! Nor do I understand why this stupidity is making people accept the policy of "Cookies", if the following happens:
1. Most ignore it or are not interested
2. There is no other option but to accept them, especially to avoid those pesky dialog boxes.
Regards!