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CTOnews.com, August 14 (Xinhua) according to a report by MediaNama, VLC, a free and open source cross-platform media player, has been banned from downloading in India, but neither side has officially announced the news.

Www.videolan.org, the official website of the VLC media player, has been banned in India, but users can still download the mobile version from Apple's App Store and Google's Google Play store, but the desktop version needs to be downloaded from a third party.

As can be seen from the screenshot, when Indian netizens visit the official website of VLC Media player, it will show that "under the IT Act of 2000 and under the order of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the website has been blocked."

According to the MediaNama report, VLC media players were banned in India about five months ago. However, most users who have installed VLC players have not noticed the change.

In addition, several reports have pointed out that some hacker groups use VLC to spread malware, which may be the reason why VLC is banned by India.

CTOnews.com learned that the VLC Multimedia player (English: VLC media player), originally called VideoLAN Client, is an open source multimedia player for the VideoLAN project. Support a wide range of audio and video decoders and file formats, and support DVD CD, VCD CD and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a unicast or multicast streaming server under the high-speed network connection of IPv4 or IPv6, calling the FFmpeg decoder and libdvdcss library to make it have the function of playing multimedia files and encrypting DVD discs.

As a popular media player around the world, VLC has been downloaded more than 3.5 billion times.

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