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.

VLC has reached 6 billion total downloads, announced at CES 2025. Real-time translation feature showcased at CES is a proof of concept, potentially revolutionizing movie subtitles and conversations.

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.

VideoLAN teased the technology at CES 2025 and shared some videos of it in action. Essentially, VLC will use AI to automatically generate subtitles for videos. The AI will also be able to ...

VLC automatic subtitles generation and translation based ... VideoLAN celebrated 6 billion downloads this week, proving VLC is incredibly popular in the age of streaming. But the video player ...

“At the same time we have automatic translation working to translate the subtitles ... 6 billion downloads. Kempf said the following: “The number of active users of VLC is actually growing ...

While this achievement is quite significant, the figure may be conservative, as the company likely excluded download ... Interestingly, VLC’s upcoming AI-powered subtitle feature seems to ...

VLC media player is preparing to harness AI to automatically generate subtitles in real-time for videos played on the popular app. At CES, the nonprofit team behind VLC is showing off the upcoming ...

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

and users,” shared VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf in a LinkedIn post regarding the 6 billion downloads. Per TechCrunch, VideoLAN is testing out automatically generated subtitles in VLC ...