VLC

VLC

by VideoLAN Team

What is VLC?

VLC is software application developed by VideoLAN Team. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows XP with nearly 54.55% of installations running this operating system. VLC's installer is typically 25.00 MB in size and installs around 156 files.

VLC is most popular in the United States with 43.75% of installations residing in this country.

VLC 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 is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About VLC?

VLC media player, also known as VLC, is a versatile and freely available open-source media player and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. With support for numerous audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-video, video CD, and streaming protocols, VLC is capable of streaming over computer networks and transcoding multimedia files. The software comes equipped with a wide range of free decoding and encoding libraries, eliminating the need to search for or configure proprietary plugins. While VLC utilizes codecs from the libavcodec library of the FFmpeg project, it primarily relies on its own muxer and demuxers, as well as its own protocols.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:
  • vlc.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program\VideoLAN\VLC2\vlc.exe'.
Scheduled tasks:
  • vlc.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{698EE047-1795-4B98-B24C-3CE258200C21}' (runs on registration).

Software Details

URL:
https://www.videolan.org/vlc
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\vlc
Uninstaller:
C:\Program Files\VLC\Uninstall.exe
Size:
25.00 MB
Language:
English

VLC Executable Details

Primary executable:
vlc.exe
Name:
VLC
Path:
C:\Program Files\vlc\vlc.exe
MD5:
d66d888ee859f38d5a5073da157e5940
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by VLC
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
f20c7c261b4b9983d401cd65e9a7f9fe
DLL
c37b4a79652dba03c06e385c4ff8ec23
EXE
92b83fc67ce7c2670d2c40e4957ed0db
EXE
6d0c62e84c7ec2c2eca1fa88cbcf7571
EXE
ce61d5f9763ff1ae8c45d5e25c48bff3
DLL
8df356aa0e179645f5df09b132f3e39b
EXE
62e80bc072ef1ddb5231635fb4c864b1
DLL
1baf5f401e18d89187bf3f93cb72b898
EXE
49e5bed2ac3da5169e5dbd741a7ffc40
EXE
b8bd3e818b02d3a76c8462203a1de81c