10 NOV 2006 VIDEOLAN 1 min read

26 millions !

Today, VLC media player version 0.8.5 has broken the 26 million download bar !

This does not mean 26 million people use VLC, since a few things are corrupting the statistics:

  • this only count direct or mirror downloads, which means that unofficial mirrors, big download sites that use a replica of the files are not counted !
  • as usual, VLC in linux distributions are not countable since most of the greatest distribution use some repository for their files;
  • 1 download != 1 user

Still, this is a good news, especially when we know that 0.8.5 has some very important issues with subtitles, flv files, wmv files and screensavers !

There are some interesting stats :

  • The windows downloads are 10 times more important than Mac-OS ones. It used to be 7 times for 0.8.4
  • The source downloads have been down dramatically compared to 0.8.4. Why ? People don’t build VLC ? A bug in the accounting ? I am gonna check.