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
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DLL
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DLL
80b4c8f0a5c7bc0f55a66b247ab2a9c8
DLL
b801fa803d0663ebd611b17a6fe07e0f
DLL
e42ca1e87aaaf91f31f793d8989d6961
DLL
a4891aacc74896f1e962db790ba1e11e
DLL
f3a2d317c20c5c4610443688c8b14fba
DLL
8c00126ffc0507fe41f86d1c925e7229
DLL
95c9efe5666b0dbc48e4fc5bb1c5b337
DLL
0be8605cd0cb84dfcf93932a280e9737