What is the most popular platform for VLC?

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What platform do YOU use VLC on?

Mac OS X
10
36%
Windows
8
29%
BeOS
1
4%
Linux
9
32%
Solaris
0
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Total votes: 28

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What is the most popular platform for VLC?

Postby voodoo » 27 Nov 2003 10:40

I recon you guys (webmasters) have an overview of VLC downloads. I am curious as to how many Windows downloads there are compared to OS X and how many BeOS downloads there are and well the other platforms that you support :)

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Postby The DJ » 27 Nov 2003 11:34

I think that, if you account for the total amount of Mac users compared to the total amount of Windows users, VLC is most popular on the Mac.
But they are catching up fast.

The statistics over oktober showed:
359997 /pub/videolan/vlc/0.6.2/win32/vlc-0.6.2-win32.exe
99851 /pub/videolan/vlc/0.6.2/win32/vlc-0.6.2-win32.zip
85974 /pub/videolan/vlc/0.6.2/macosx/vlc-0.6.2.dmg
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Postby Dnumgis » 27 Nov 2003 13:34

I tried to do some sums over the statistics since august. The windows version was downloaded >1 000 000 times. The mac os x version < 400 000 if I recall correctly. Linux users most probably just download the source, or download binaries from their distro, so giving a idea on how many linux users there are whould be really hard

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OS X users have fewer options

Postby waterbug » 27 Nov 2003 20:11

OS X users probably favor VLC so much because we have few other options. For example, Apple's bundled DVD player doesn't de-interlace on older hw.
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Postby Goon » 01 Dec 2003 19:00

VideoLAN website statistics are public ( http://www.videolan.org/stats/ ) and if you take a look at it, you can see how many times the main versions of VLC have been downloaded :wink:


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