VLC media player is a free and open-source media player and streaming system that plays almost any audio or video file, as well as DVDs, discs and network streams, without needing extra codecs. It began as a student project at the Ecole Centrale Paris, as part of the VideoLAN project for streaming video over a university network, and the code was released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and mobile systems, and its icon is a traffic cone, a reference to the students' collection of cones. It became one of the most downloaded programs in the world. VLC is developed by volunteers and is supported by the non-profit VideoLAN organisation.
Before and after
- 15 January 2001Release of English Wikipedia
- 15 January 2001Founding of Creative Commons
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
- from 22 January 2001 to 13 August 20012001 insurgency in Macedonia
- 1 February 2001Release of VLC media player
- 2 February 2001Establishment of Alexander von Humboldt National Park
- 26 February 2001Treaty of Nice
- March 2001Construction of Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos"
- 16 March 2001Release of Catalan Wikipedia
More in Science & technology
- 1945Discovery of promethium
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 29 August 1982Discovery of meitnerium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
The era
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