After all these years, I still smile when I see the annual Santa hat logo change. 😅

At least 200 of the reported downloads are just me 😅

Reminder that VLC has been to the moon and back.

Most users have no idea that it's much more than a video player. The interface is sofa king bad for anything BUT video playing.

Even just playing videos, it doesn't have reverse step frame-by-frame, because they outright refuse to implement it, even though other players have had it for many years without any problems.

SEveral hundred of those are mine.

VLC good, but mpv peak.

this doesnt even include the couple of hundred downloads from linux repos, flathub and snap store

This is a meaningless metric: lots of people probably got it from sources they have no way of tracking (e.g. distro repos), others may be crawlers, etc. etc.

Tbh I don't use it every day. But also tbh, if something doesn't play in another player, I know it will play in VLC. Mad respect.

VLC, you guys absolutely rock

Beautiful. All these people, using it to watch their totally legal downloaded videos. Arrrg!

I use mpv btw

I've used vlc since the stone ages. However recently (on mint) it's been opening two windows, one for the video and one for the player. Doesn't matter which boxes I click in the settings. Super annoying

...and the other billion people on the planet hate computers.

VLC 3.0 when

It was 3.0 right? Wayland and HDR and all the other stuff that is in MPV since forever? I use Haruna btw

Cool, still waiting for them to fix the excessive startup delay that's been there for months, and wasnt there before the latest update.

And it still doesnt work with blu-rays, irregardless of how many addons and libraries I jam into it.

Free doesnt always mean better.