The student staff running the campus network of the École Centrale Paris had a problem. Here's an excerpt describing the origin of VLC on a university campus: VLC 4.0 is expected "in the coming months," but we don't know any more than that at this stage.Įven with the VLC 4.0 details aside, the Protocol article is worth reading just for the history behind one of the world's most successful open source projects if you're not already familiar (and maybe even if you are). VLC will also ultimately get support the AV1 and AV2 codecs AV1 is gaining a great deal of traction for streaming services and other video products these days. Finally, VideoLAN is developing a new way to run VLC on the Web, using Webassembly and JavaScript. But it was clear nothing is final on that front yet. "That is something that could work for VLC," he explained. To that end, Kempf said VideoLAN is exploring a Plex-like business model, with ad-supported free video streams available in the player. The VideoLAN foundation has not generally sought ways to monetize VLC, but some source of funding or revenue could help ensure long-term support for the project. While the article doesn't list every change coming, it does outline a couple other possible directions and priorities for VLC. Kempf had previously shown some version of a new interface about two years ago, but it's unclear at this point how much that one resembles the one the team plans to introduce with VLC 4.0. Further Reading VideoLAN VLC releases version 3.0 with HDR and 360-degree video"We modified the interface to be a bit more modern," VideoLAN foundation President Jean-Baptiste Kempf told the publication.
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