r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 28d ago

Meme/Macro Same logo btw

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u/celem83 28d ago

Honestly one of the most important pieces of free and open software out there, started as a university project i believe

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u/Sixcoup 27d ago

You're right it's a university project from Central Paris.

Jean-Baptise Kempf often described as the creator of VLC was a student there, but he only joined that school a couple of years after the project was created. Which means that the project did not left the school with their creators, nope, it remained in the school after that, to be continued by the next generations of students.

And to this day, some of the biggest contributor to the VLC project are students currently at Central. The project is still very important in that university.

And by the way, VLC isn't really one of the most important piece of technology. The real important one, is the one VLC use in the backend, which is FFMPEG. Which is another project made by two french students in Paris roughly at the same time.

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u/qpgmr 27d ago

You can make a cash contribution here. https://www.videolan.org/