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Last Saturday, Oct 6 2012, to be exact, Video Converter Android has reached 1,000,000 downloads milestone.
The app is first released on Dec 17 2011. It takes less than 10 months to reach the 1 million downloads, much faster than I expected. 
I checked my blog, below is a list of milestones in terms of downloads.
- Jan 21 2012: 50, 000 downloads
- Feb 20, 2012: 100, 000 downloads
- Jul 26 2012: 500, 000 downloads
- Oct 6 2012: 1,000,000 downloads
The daily download count is now stable at around 8000.
Enough good news. The bad news about the stats is the active users are only around 20%. That means the app cannot keep the users for long. I personally think there’s a few reasons listed as below.
- video conversion is generally slow. I cannot do much about this. Hopefully when mobile devices get more powerful, this will change.
- Not many times people need to convert videos. Lots of people may download the app, convert it and then uninstall the app.
- The app size is big, especially the codec (~10MB). People will uninstall the app for more space.
- The app doesn’t work for some videos on some devices. I am trying to support more devices and videos, but it is hard.
Anyway, I will continue to refine the app. If you have any ideas of how to make the app better, please leave a comment below.
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Hi Roman
Great work with FFmpeg on Android!
I was wondering if you could help us make a simple Android video player app that can take a video stream as input and play it in the normal player app.
I mean using FFMpeg, to accomodate video streams not supported by std player.
Please contact us if you consider doing this.
Thank you.
You can search for dolphin player, which is ffmpeg based open source video player for android
I know that it is a completely different platform, I’m just so crazy about your program so I would love to have it for my Readynas