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
8b29825e25e4128d54e324d268877848
DLL
1d4be6f77697e6448b9a96676899d9e0
EXE
243dd8a901e2c89bab58cbaace49c718
EXE
e3fcf10d6e234c9d818110ec3157b14d
DLL
72efa620bbdf0035012182f8df047d48
DLL
5245589964fb06081cf0f31e541793b6
DLL
8693813ed01b2fe921c11da834bb0d21
DLL
f576f22835c9b25c55459aea54146dc5
DLL
edc93550ae1d220c80382ef2cb426827
DLL
b36a961ab9c66ab4dd0a18743709b761