Posted on Tuesday, November 26 2019 @ 12:20 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Without a doubt, VLC Media Player is one of the most popular media utilities for the PC. The application plays just about anything and has a very basic design without any unnecessary bills & whistles. In a new piece, Increment
takes a look at the team that creates this open-source, cross platform media software. As the article explains, VLC was originally a coding project at a French university:
When Jean-Baptiste Kempf joined École Centrale Paris as a student in 2003, he was tasked with helping run the university’s computer network. It included an unusual project: student-run open-source software that had been running on a couple of university servers for seven years. To students, the project was known as “Network 2000.” To the rest of the world, it was VLC media player.
