VLC Media Player Passes 3 Billion Downloads Mark, AirPlay Support Coming Soon | Linux Today

VLC Media Player Passes 3 Billion Downloads Mark, AirPlay Support Coming Soon

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Marius Nestor
Jan 14, 2019

VLC is probably the most popular cross-platform media playback application available to date, used by millions of computer users worldwide on all major platforms, including GNU/Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Chrome OS, and even Windows Phone OS. But you probably already knew that and already using VLC as your main video player app on your personal computer, tablet, or mobile phones. What you probably didn’t know, is that VLC reached has been downloaded more than 3 billion times on the official website.

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Marius Nestor

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