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
ed6894fbb452030ab4ecd474e4c62955
EXE
616a1457af93a10662046b58eee0539e
EXE
aa021d04d761ec2d7272bb728a5bddf8
EXE
84871837f9a4b693635163d52f082b08
EXE
fc74d512f30ee8059ca9b8d576b97e69
EXE
eab2831fdf0e32e2981811d2609d988a
EXE
6abf8352ad2b5331e32a2f7dcf8896eb
EXE
6a00af77d46092bf32fe5fae44be5dde
EXE
cae7621cde32a7cb62aa174c78ff9712
DLL
9a3dc6252aef0f659e832dde98f5ed01