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: