VLC Media Player
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:
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- emp.exe runs as a service named 'VLC media player' (VLC media player).
- Firewall:
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- emp.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe'.
- Scheduled tasks:
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- emp.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{0FEA804A-2436-4190-A404-93C2AC8FE9AD}' (runs on registration).
Startup Entries
- Startup tasks:
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- 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:
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- 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:
- –
| File Type | Filename | MD5 |
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EXE
|
e3a299fd1e816f011a6a7805053af8b8 | |
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DLL
|
e72694dd8438f0e6cc5edd94764075aa | |
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EXE
|
1f3a3593a69eb2bd855fba3ef6610772 | |
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EXE
|
5e8509b45f7d472fdc99042f64270ff4 | |
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EXE
|
8dfd45d66d292b9ef74abb8e476e3f5d | |
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DLL
|
b97925f2071b469dbf82e3cc7614aa7f | |
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EXE
|
43f92a815a6884d0d8822353c7048431 | |
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EXE
|
cdef63dd24322c6b9575321567294202 | |
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EXE
|
e818362e7368863863c35c76be9ccfb8 | |
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EXE
|
2fc73b952b2a75a420b69e1348aa6690 |