VLC media player, the popular open source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system.

At CES 2025, non-profit organization VideoLAN announced that their open-source media player app VLC Media Player crossed an incredible milestone: over 6 billion downloads, TechCrunch reports.

It’s starting to look like VLC’s days in the iOS app store are numbered. Videolan developer, Rémi Denis-Courmont, has confirmed that the company has sent Apple papers citing copyright ...

VideoLAN, the company behind the app/program, demoed the feature at CES 2025. The company actually demoed automatic AI subtitling and translation. Best of all, all of this has been generated ...

VLC is a powerful conversion tool. VideoLAN Client — but you know it as VLC — is a media client available for Linux, macOS, ...

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Meet Julien Navas, dressed as a Conehead wizard to promote VideoLAN’s new automatic subtitle generation and translation for VLC. I tracked down the colorful character in the French section of ...

VLC parent VideoLAN brought at CES 2025 a demo of the player using on-device AI to offer subtitles and translation in real-time as a video is playing. The AI’s ability to translate languages or ...

Rémi Denis-Courmont, one of the primary developers of VLC, explained that Videolan sent a formal notification of copyright infringement to Apple regarding the way VLC for iOS is distributed in the App ...

VideoLAN shows off the creation and translation of subtitles in more than 100 languages, all offline. VideoLAN shows off the creation and translation of subtitles in more than 100 languages ...

This was announced by VideoLAN, the non-profit company that publishes VLC, at the CES in Las Vegas and online. At the same time, it was announced that VLC has now been downloaded six billion times.

“At the same time we have automatic translation working to translate the subtitles to your own language,” said Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the President of VideoLAN. The company actually plans to ...