The creators of the VLC media player, an open – source and cross-platform media player, set the software the threshold of 1 billion downloads, passed. In addition, downloads from the Linux distributions are not counted.
The statistics of VLC media player, which is developed by the VideoLAN organization, have been tracked since February 2005 when version 0.7.2 was offered. Since then, would the open-source media player according to the statistics of the creators more than 1 billion times won. VideoLAN makes the note that the figures may not be entirely accurate and that, moreover, the downloads of VLC media player via various Linux distributions are not counted because these are often repositories are offered.
From the figures shown it appears that version 1.1.11 on the Windows platform with more than 181 million downloads the most popular version was. Version 2, which in February was released, and the bugfix release 2.0.1 also doing well with collectively more than 75 million measured downloads.
VLC owes its popularity not only to the fact that the media player is cross-platform and is available for free, but also because it is virtually all video and audio formats and codecs can play. In addition, the software itself will already have the required codecbibliotheken. In addition, the media player is capable of video streaming, the modular set-up and it was the first open-source media player that encrypted dvds could play on OS X and Linux with support for the libdvdcss library. Version 2.x can now, either on a limited scale, also compatible with blu-ray titles.
