What is VLC media player 0.9.8a?

VLC media player 0.9.8a is software application developed by VideoLAN Team. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 48.22% of installations running this operating system. VLC media player 0.9.8a's installer is typically 47.00 MB in size and installs around 26 files.

VLC media player 0.9.8a is most popular in the United States with 27.67% of installations residing in this country.

VLC media player 0.9.8a adds 2 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, VLC media player 0.9.8a is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About VLC media player 0.9.8a?

The VLC media player, also known as VLC, is a portable, open-source media player and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. It supports a wide range of audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-video, video CD, and streaming protocols. It is capable of streaming over computer networks and transcoding multimedia files. VLC comes with a comprehensive collection of free decoding and encoding libraries, eliminating the need for proprietary plugins. While it utilizes codecs from the libavcodec library of the FFmpeg project, it primarily relies on its own muxer and demuxers, as well as its own protocols.

Software Behaviors

Services:

vlc.exe runs as a service named 'VLC Service' (VLC Service).

Firewall:

vlc.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Programas\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

vlc.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{86A23930-D1EE-4B1C-A4D7-ECFFF42FBE11}' (runs on registration).
vlc-cache-gen.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{E6C68CE6-F991-45B7-81F3-7587DA009AA5}' (runs on registration).

Software Details

URL:

https://www.videolan.org

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\Program Files\videolan\vlc

Uninstaller:

C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\uninstall.exe

Size:

47.00 MB

Language:

English

VLC media player 0.9.8a Executable Details

Primary executable:

vlc.exe

Name:

VLC media player 0.9.8a

Path:

C:\Program Files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe

MD5:

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SHA-1:

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SHA-256:

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File Type

Filename

MD5

EXE

vlc-1.0.5-win32.exe

ed6894fbb452030ab4ecd474e4c62955

EXE

vlc-1.0.0-win32.exe

4d70c705650b4ae60f54ae2d2515cf92

EXE

vlc-1.0.3-win32.exe

9a51f603a01823b8376ebbca0b385d20

EXE

vlc-1.1.2-win32.exe

83a40133100cf1f0a6afafec165ee392

EXE

vlc-1.0.2-win32.exe

f765e385d7ccb464e1b96182be235a4c

EXE

vlc-0.8.6a-win32.exe

5a088a64687c5d0bf904974682f2e7e6