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VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming (news.itsfoss.com)

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[+] [email protected] -19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How would they earn money on this? It's still a FOSS project. They are simply revamping their GUI and adding support for one more protocol.

Plex is NOT FOSS! Plex is a private company's cash cow.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've met the devs in person. They keep turning down literal suitcases full of cash from people who want to bundle adware and crap in one of the most popular programs ever. Don't assume VLC is going down that road -- they've stuck to their ethics for decades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

almost 1 download for every human on earth

"BUT IT'S NOT POPULAR! ALL THE DOWNLOADS ARE FROM JANUARY 1ST 2005 AND NOBODY EVER DOWNLOADED IT EVER AGAIN! IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY BY BIG TRAFFIC CONE! I DON'T WANT FACTS LALALALALA" --this guy

Big Traffic Cone is coming for you. It cautions us all. That's why it's orange with reflective stripes. You should have heeded it's warning. Be afraid, very afraid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If all those downloads were from 2005 to 2015, and there's only been a few hundred in the last nine years, that would mean the popularity has declined.

But we don't know that. We don't know if the downloads have increased, decreased, or stayed the same based on the proffered numbers. We only know a flat number from the last twenty years.

Thats the point theyre making, not that its unequivocally unpopular now.

Also you're about three billion shy of one download for everyone on earth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

(to the entire public) STOP HAVING FUCKING BABIES

When I was in my prime it was 6 billion, and we liked it. Now get off my lawn!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The original article (https://www.lowpass.cc/p/vlc-five-billion-downloads-vision-pro-app) states

The app surpassed three billion downloads in early 2019

so there has been at least 2 billion downloads in the last 5 years. Also,

The latest version of VLC, which was released in November, has already been downloaded more than 335 million times by desktop users alone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Big Traffic Cone is coming for you

damn me if this is not the best Brand New Sentence I have seen in a long time. congrats!