VLC media participant, the favored open-source software program developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system.
The new characteristic mechanically generates real-time subtitles — which may then even be translated in lots of languages — for any video utilizing open-source AI fashions that run domestically on customers’ gadgets, eliminating the necessity for web connectivity or cloud companies, VideoLAN demoed at CES.
The agency didn’t say when it deliberate to rollout the characteristic.
VideoLAN began in 1996 as a venture by college students at Ecole Centrale Paris making an attempt to stream movies throughout campus. Unlike many open-source initiatives which have struggled to outlive on donations alone, VLC has maintained its free, ad-free mannequin whereas increasing throughout a number of working techniques. The media participant continues to function with out promoting, information assortment, or industrial income streams.
“The variety of lively customers of VLC is definitely rising, even on this age of streaming companies,” VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote in a LinkedIn submit.
