VideoLAN is 20 years old today

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VideoLAN celebrates its 20 years anniversary

The VideoLAN project and the VideoLAN non-profit organization are happy to celebrate today the 20th anniversary of the open-sourcing of the project.

VideoLAN originally started as a project from the Via Centrale Réseaux student association, after the successful Network 2000 project.
But the true release of the project to the world was on 1st of February 2001, the École Centrale Paris director, Mr. Gourisse, allowed the open-sourcing of the whole VideoLAN project under the GNU GPL.

This open sourcing concerned all the software developed by the VideoLAN project, including VideoLAN Client, VideoLAN Server, VideoLAN Bridge, VideoLAN Channel Switcher, but also libraries to decode DVDs, like libdca, liba52 or libmpeg2.

At that time, this was a risky decision for the École Centrale Paris, and the VideoLAN project is very grateful.

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Happy OS’ing Birthday :partying_face:

VLC is always one of the programs I install on my Mac :orange_heart:

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VLC is pretty good but the iOS variant lacks important features and is kind of barebones for like a year and half now…

Examples: no clip / movie thumbnail previews, no AFP shares (only SMB and FTP I think?), and it mutes volume when you pause it – to make it even worse, it doesn’t even do it all the time.

I love VLC on the desktop but I started looking for alternatives on iOS.

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