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- VLC media player could gain access to free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels, a representative said.
- This would be an optional feature for users, though, and the decision hasn’t been finalized yet.
VLC is one of the world’s most popular and flexible media players, playing a variety of multimedia files and even letting you stream content over the network and via URLs. It sounds like the program could gain another notable feature in the future, though.
The president of the VideoLAN organization behind VLC told Low Pass (via It’s FOSS News) that they were thinking about bringing free, ad-supported streaming TV channels and “other ad-supported online media” to VLC media player.