![]() ![]() Initially, the school threw a lot of resources behind it, folding it into a formal teaching program. The French university had first developed it as a way for computer science students to practice their coding in a safe environment. In an era before Netflix and YouTube, users had few choices when it came to media software, and none of them were terribly good.īut by the late aughts, VLC was facing a terminal diagnosis. That release extended VLC’s reach beyond École Centrale as the software was adopted by the wider public. Though first developed in 1996, VLC was a breath of fresh air when it was released in 2001 under a GNU General Public license: It was customizable and high-powered, and, above all, it worked. There was Windows Media Player, a janky and underpowered program sufficient for entry-level users, as well as monstrosities like RealPlayer, which locked users into odd codecs and file formats. In an era before Netflix and YouTube, users had few choices when it came to media software, and none of them were terribly good. Even before the nonprofit began tracking downloads, it was clear that VLC was a runaway success. Since February 2005, it’s been downloaded 3 billion times, according to VideoLAN. As the person overseeing the project and its team, he sets the tone for VLC as a whole. (VideoLAN Client, the original name for the project, is where VLC gets its name.) On the surface, he’s laid-back, casual, and frank, though that belies a steely determination. Kempf-now the president of VLC’s parent organization, the nonprofit VideoLAN-is the person who helped guide VLC’s journey from student project to ubiquitous software. To students, the project was known as “Network 2000.” To the rest of the world, it was VLC media player. It included an unusual project: student-run open-source software that had been running on a couple of university servers for seven years. For apps that are now Universal, you need to indicate under requirements that they are universal, because there are users that may want to run native-ARM apps, if available (and if you own an ARM mac, why wouldn't you want to run native apps if available?).When Jean-Baptiste Kempf joined École Centrale Paris as a student in 2003, he was tasked with helping run the university’s computer network. ![]() ![]() Maybe that means separate MU pages for each platform in the case of VLC, or you need to host both versions and offer the user a choice which file when downloading. So come up with a system to handle this new world we live in, every day that goes by it only will get more confusing. VLC is the first app I've seen that comes as separate installers, but logical to think more will come, for whatever reason a Universal app is not available (technical reasons, licensing, size of the executable, who knows). There a many Universal apps now, but if you look at the MAc Update page for them, there is no indication that they are Universal and requirements still say Intel-64. As I"ve been telling MU for several months you need to come up with a system/policy for how to document and catalog Universal and/or ARM only apps. The download you are hosting currently as of this date is the ARM version. VLC is now available in separate Intel and ARM (Apple Silicon) versions, with DIFFERENT versioning schemes. ![]()
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