The article reports that the VLC media player, developed by the non-profit VideoLAN, has reached a significant milestone of 7 billion downloads across all platforms. This achievement was announced by Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the president and lead developer of VLC, in an email. The milestone was reached approximately 18 months after VLC surpassed 6 billion downloads in January 2025.
Kempf also highlighted recent developments, noting that VLC has been ported to Amazon’s new Vega OS for TVs. VideoLAN is actively working on expanding support for additional platforms and codecs, and is preparing for the upcoming VLC 4 release, although the development process is taking longer than anticipated. The article mentions that VideoLAN had previously teased AI-powered translation and subtitle features using local models, but it remains unclear whether these features have been released. Source