VLC media player has been downloaded 3 billion times

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45 points·jmsflknr··7 comments

I have a huge amount of respect for them, for having refused the very substantial (7-8 figures) amount of money they got offered to bundle crapware/spyware with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15372048

I’ve been loving the iOS VLC player.

I have no qualms with the app, but the network tabs leads me to believe it has lots of features I never utilise, primarily because I’m not sure how.

Primarily I’m talking about the streams and downloads features.

Obviously, it’s a media player. I don’t expect it to provide the links for these features, but my big question is always, what’s 3rd party sites or apps do provide vlc compatible stream/download links.

Are there sites / apps for this? If not, it seems like a huge opportunity for iOS considering how locked down those kinds of download / stream features seems to be in general.

And they stood up for all those users when scummy people came around to buy access to those computers!

Their MobileVLCKit is a huge help on our projects too.

a complicated program, its far more than a media player! to say its a media player is to say a diamond is a shiny thing with no other use. thanx for the post and support.

Do you mind elaborating on what else it can do apart from being a media player?

Just for someone who uses the software daily, I'd like to know more!

VLC is a transcoder and will convert from one format to another, or from one stream container to another. VLC will capture and record a stream as well as restream. VLC will record whatever media or stream is being played. VLC has web interfaces to remotely access and controll the [VLC] application.

http://www.videolan.org/

http://www.videolan.org/support/faq.html

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