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
f6c05f37a7ba8518c4c9b9b7da8eb36f
DLL
312af28a00dc22c19232a27a3d4f4bab
DLL
a509ed754e8af8a2bb888c45fc45d09e
DLL
ad642070b4683b6f8d6fc023e18e7a88
DLL
d92800b3a98734cdd94b4ee3f8971a9b
DLL
1225d8c4e2cdcbbd7023bef84175eed6