<P> In 2007 the VLC project decided, for license compatibility reasons, to not upgrade to the just released GPLv3 . After 13 years of development, version 1.0. 0 of VLC media player was released on July 7, 2009 . Work began on VLC for Android in 2010 and it is available for Android devices on the Google Play store since 2011 . In September 2010, a company named "Applidium" developed a VLC port for iOS under GPLv2 with the endorsement of the VLC project, which was accepted by Apple for their App store . In January 2011, after VLC developer Rémi Denis - Courmont's complaint to Apple about the licensing conflict between the VLC's GPLv2 and the App store's policies, the VLC had been withdrawn from the Apple App Store by Apple . Following, the VLC authors began to relicense in October 2011 the engine parts of VLC from the GPLv2 to the LGPLv 2 to achieve better license compatibility, for instance with the Apple App Store . In July 2013 the VLC application could then resubmitted to the iOS App Store under the Mozilla Public License . Version 2.0. 0 of VLC media player was released on February 18, 2012 . A version for the Windows Store was released on March 13, 2014 . Support for Windows RT, Windows Phone and Xbox One were later added . As of 2016 VLC is third in the sourceforge.net overall download count, and there have been more than 2 billion downloads . </P> <P> Version 3.0 was in development for Windows, Linux and macOS since June 2016 and released in February 2018 . It contains many new features including Chromecast output support, hardware - accelerated decoding, 4K and 8K playback, 10 - bit and HDR playback, 360 ° video and 3D audio, audio passthrough for HD audio codecs, BluRay Java menu support, and local network drive browsing . </P> <P> In December 2017 the European Parliament approved a budget that funds a bug bounty program for VLC to improve the EU's IT infrastructure . </P> <P> VLC, like most multimedia frameworks, has a very modular design which makes it easier to include modules / plugins for new file formats, codecs, interfaces, or streaming methods . VLC 1.0. 0 has more than 380 modules . The VLC core creates its own graph of modules dynamically, depending on the situation: input protocol, input file format, input codec, video card capabilities and other parameters . In VLC, almost everything is a module, like interfaces, video and audio outputs, controls, scalers, codecs, and audio / video filters . </P>

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