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Legendary media player VLC turns 20

The VideoLAN team celebrated an important anniversary on February 1, 2021 – the legendary VLC media player turned 20 years old.

Legendary media player VLC turns 20

VideoLAN is the name of the project itself and the French non-profit organization that is behind its development. The first release of VLC took place on February 1, 2001.

VLC is a free, open source, free cross-platform media player. VLC plays a lot of multimedia files, as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, copes with network broadcasts.

VLC works on most modern operating systems and mobile platforms, from Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, to such exotic as OS / 2 and BSD, Tizen and Windows 10 Mobile.

As noted by the developers, now the VLC media player is regularly used by hundreds of millions of users, and over the years it has been downloaded over 3.5 billion times. In total, about a thousand volunteers managed to work on the project.

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