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Milestone: Half a million downloads for VideoLAN packages in the .NET
ecosystem

1 minute read

The NuGet VideoLAN account just reached half a million downloads in
the .NET ecosystem.

                            [nugettrend]

The first publication of the first VideoLAN NuGet package dates back
to April 1st, 2018 (no joke!). We have been steadily adding new
packages since then to cover all platforms supported by both LibVLC
and .NET.

Today, we actively publish and maintain 15 NuGet packages, 6 of which
actually containing native platform-specific code. The remaining 9
packages are managed C# DLLs composed of the main binding (
LibVLCSharp) and various GUI toolkit integrations for getting users
up and running quickly.

  * Xamarin.Android
  * Xamarin.iOS
  * Xamarin.tvOS
  * Xamarin.Mac (Cocoa)
  * Windows Classic (WPF, WinForms, GTK)
  * Windows Universal (UWP for Desktop, mobile and Xbox)
  * Linux including desktop, server and Raspberry Pi (GTK)
  * Xamarin.Forms
  * Uno Platform (UWP, Android, iOS)
  * Avalonia (Windows, macOS, Linux)

LibVLCSharp counts about 19 contributors, with most people doing
one-off contributions and mainly 2 active maintainers (Jeremy and
myself). I'd like to thank each of them for their valuable OSS
contributions!

What's next?

Many exciting things! More game engine integrations, ongoing LibVLC 4
support, interop performance improvements and plenty of new
integrations, samples and features are yet to be implemented.

We have a diverse and (mostly) well-defined backlog of both features
to implement and bugs to fix, with a varying degree of difficulty,
and always welcome new contributors. We are available on the LibVLC
community Discord server (320+ members).

Feel free to let me know what you think on Twitter.

Updated: January 13, 2021

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