In our world of high-priced streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media participant, developed by the non-profit VideoLAN, has crossed 7 billion downloads throughout all platforms.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the president and lead developer of VLC, despatched this replace in an e mail. This milestone comes virtually 18 months after the app breached the 6 billion obtain mark in January 2025.
Kempf talked about that the corporate lately ported VLC to Amazon’s new Vega OS for TVs. The corporate mentioned additionally it is engaged on supporting all different platforms and codecs, and that VLC is making ready for the VLC 4 launch, however it’s taking time in growth.
Final yr, VideoLAN had teased AI-powered translation and subtitles utilizing native fashions, however it isn’t clear if these options had been ever launched.