VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player

by VideoLAN Team

What is VLC Media Player?

VLC Media Player is software application developed by VideoLAN Team. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 56.34% of installations running this operating system. VLC Media Player's installer is typically 97.00 MB in size and installs around 386 files. The most common release is 1.1.1 with 16.56% of all installations currently using this version.

VLC Media Player is most popular in the United States with 36.20% of installations residing in this country.

VLC Media Player adds 1 scheduled task 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 is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About VLC Media Player?

VLC media player (VLC) is a versatile, free, and open-source media player and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. With its cross-platform compatibility, VLC supports a wide range of audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-video, video CD, and various streaming protocols. In addition to streaming over computer networks, VLC can transcode multimedia files to different formats. The default distribution of VLC includes numerous free decoding and encoding libraries, eliminating the need for proprietary plugins. While VLC utilizes codecs from the FFmpeg project, it also integrates its own muxer and demuxers, as well as protocols for seamless multimedia playback.

Software Behaviors

Services:
  • emp.exe runs as a service named 'VLC media player' (VLC media player).
Firewall:
  • emp.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe'.
Scheduled tasks:
  • emp.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{0FEA804A-2436-4190-A404-93C2AC8FE9AD}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • vlc.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named open vlc.
  • vlc.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named VLC startup.
  • vlc.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Set Audio mode to Waveout.
Registry entries:
  • vlc.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'VLC' and executes as "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe".
  • vlc.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'VLC media player' and executes as "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe".

Software Details

URL:
https://www.videolan.org
Support:
https://www.videolan.org/support
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\VideoLAN
Uninstaller:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\uninstall.exe" "/C:C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\Uninstall\uninstall.xml"
Size:
97.00 MB
Language:
English

VLC Media Player Executable Details

Primary executable:
vlc.exe
Name:
VLC Media Player
Path:
C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\vlc.exe
MD5:
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by VLC Media Player
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
e66c99d4635cb59e445f49a337dacc69
DLL
6954d92ec25ab12963bfdd3e58785888
EXE
426e0bdac027c41b0a7bc73cfc86e140
DLL
51b786b91ffcd549e670b4e765673693
EXE
0fa2d1fb7d40cf59ee118c9f4de59832
EXE
e001290331e424b4c2c024605da0bac1
DLL
15ac4aacc2cb7749a51691ef4250b28c
DLL
c4521c045f6430fee73e30d7438e0c40
DLL
9a262ee180d0c088bf7b015eb25405cb
DLL
e53c8ae3bb88de3f84f6191cd473cf65