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:
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SHA-1:
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SHA-256:
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Files installed by VLC Media Player
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
libvlccore_1.dll
66c95d62eb11d3190aea74624f996a44
EXE
jtv2vlc_3.exe
7c424d73cbd2bc1c5b2fdd4185a6723c
DLL
libvlccore_2.dll
9d8ade233b94fb50ff3c6a0ee879f05e
DLL
npvlc_2.dll
e567220c5708c8bc94cf35e43e274d5a
EXE
vlcmgr.exe
1425d878c4a5ff3b50768af0599aa1ab
DLL
libmsn_plugin.dll
a86780a326f2b75b1a4d9fe54b516dc1
EXE
Real_Alternative_202_Lite.exe
57ace334c83fb031bbc69259c06c7bae
EXE
VLC115IT.exe
ee186410ce9e6b99d708b6012db3790f
EXE
$R572VSB.exe
7dd4713269bc18ed7fea70ae33db0733
EXE
TAKENOUTvlc.exe
0efa1d779a5efde807bcfa45202e983a