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
EXE
d66d888ee859f38d5a5073da157e5940
DLL
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DLL
20a771958db2b8ca4372eb95f59fdf3f
DLL
7868ed46c34a1b36bea10560f453598f
DLL
0aa85ffef6a3eec26d9203573a893601
DLL
d1ff91e5d243a1f9632a8d2f9b264271
DLL
6f1a4114a10c5114d02a4362b5db9486
DLL
35dfda7b2fa407ff52951c37a7ab7c1b
DLL
c80a3989f148f6f7579939086c932eab
DLL
65bab25e5bbd9bbe7f1e957e776858f6