OpenVPN VS VideoLAN Client (VLC)

Compare OpenVPN vs VideoLAN Client (VLC) and see what are their differences.

OpenVPN

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon (by OpenVPN)

VideoLAN Client (VLC)

VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/ (by videolan)
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OpenVPN VideoLAN Client (VLC)
81 379
9,889 12,932
2.2% 2.3%
9.2 2.3
15 days ago 18 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

OpenVPN

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenVPN. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-02.

VideoLAN Client (VLC)

Posts with mentions or reviews of VideoLAN Client (VLC). We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenVPN and VideoLAN Client (VLC) you can also consider the following projects:

tinc - a VPN daemon

mpv - 🎥 Command line video player

Pritunl - Enterprise VPN server

iina - The modern video player for macOS.

ocserv

Anime4K - A High-Quality Real Time Upscaler for Anime Video

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

openvpn3-linux - OpenVPN 3 Linux client

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

SoftEther - Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

mpd - Music Player Daemon