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
DLL
1a68ca13f719961a8ccc209d2e11ffb9
DLL
9dd98ada3280db44835415d2344d61af
DLL
e4b55bf2d77d195ec48d6d7a7db29d1a
DLL
f9c9a978efeabaeb3897a8a746c53272
DLL
ed05d3701cb8e5278eea0f675abdb77f
DLL
e9e7ffe595d2abf63b7a562d1d83cf3e
DLL
16b35c929a0a60c10756bd06fcc200d5
DLL
ee56dd9e3d6d373b57b45672fda2daaa
DLL
18cf981f8f30ff3c7a414e6f9f45a00d
DLL
fdddbec11b9899a58fa4afb23731f119