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What is vlc.exe?

Part of VLC media player by VideoLAN

What is it?

VLC media player (VLC) is a highly portable free and open-source media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project. VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream over computer network and to transcode multimedia files.

Description of vlc.exe from VideoLAN

“VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.”

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How does vlc.exe run?

Process - vlc.exe is an instance of a running program. This 32-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account. vlc.exe is executed by the process explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft).

How does vlc.exe start?

Autoplay handler - vlc.exe is typically associtated with identifier name of VLCPlayCDAudioOnArrival with and identifier of SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\Handlers\VLCPlayCDAudioOnArrival. Autoplay will scan removable media, when it arrives, looking for media content types (music, graphics, or video). When a removable media arrives, Windows determines what actions to perform by evaluating the content and comparing it to registered handlers for that content. An application will register a handler for Autoplay events associated with a media type.

Scheduled task - vlc.exe is launched automatically by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\{27FFE8AB-2D92-43EE-ACD6-C01B3CCA8F96}'. Task Scheduler provides the ability to schedule the launch of programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time intervals or even with event-based triggers.

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What is the community is seeing?	What is the community is doing?
About 0.2% of all Boost users have the vlc.exe process running.	Of the 0.2% of vlc.exe users, 48.0% have disabled it.

How stable is VLC media player?

Based on crash data discovered by Boost, stability is a measure of how sound this particular process and the average percent of times it crashes.

	vlc.exe0.03%

	Typical program1.26%

How resource intensive is vlc.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

0.08757% CPU875735.2%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

47.42 MB RAM220.2%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

128 GDI objects85.3%

Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.

3,335 context switches/sec3335.0%

Average context switches for all programs is 100 per second.

Typical file (disk image) location:

C:\Program Files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe

Are there other versions of VLC media player?

vlc.exe - version 2.1.0-rc1

vlc.exe - version 2.1.0-git

vlc.exe - version 2.1.0

vlc.exe - version 2.0.8

vlc.exe - version 2.0.7 (this)

vlc.exe - version 2.0.6

vlc.exe - version 2.0.5

vlc.exe - version 2.0.4

vlc.exe - version 2.0.3

vlc.exe - version 2.0.2

vlc.exe - version 2.0.1

vlc.exe - version 2.0.0-rc1

vlc.exe - version 2.0.0

What modules are loaded?

A module is a dynamic link library (DLL) or an executable file that is loaded into the process. Below is a list of non-system modules that are loaded by VLC media player.

libvlc.dll (VLC media player by VideoLAN)

libvlccore.dll (VLC media player by VideoLAN)

libdshow_plugin.dll

libaout_directx_plugin.dll

libwaveout_plugin.dll

libdirectx_plugin.dll

libmemcpymmxext_plugin.dll

libhotkeys_plugin.dll

libglobalhotkeys_plugin.dll

libqt4_plugin.dll

liblua_plugin.dll

libxml_plugin.dll

liblibbluray_plugin.dll

libaccess_bd_plugin.dll

libdvdnav_plugin.dll

libaccess_vdr_plugin.dll

libfilesystem_plugin.dll

libstream_filter_httplive_plugin.dll

libstream_filter_dash_plugin.dll

libstream_filter_rar_plugin.dll

libzip_plugin.dll

libstream_filter_record_plugin.dll

libplaylist_plugin.dll

libschroedinger_plugin.dll

What else is related?

axvlc.dll (VLC media player (Activex Plugin) by VideoLAN)

npvlc.dll (VLC Web Plugin by VideoLAN)

axvlc.dll (VLC Web Plugin by VideoLAN)

explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft)

VLC media player Stability

vlc.exe crashes or has encountered a critical error 0.8900% of the time.


1.	Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH) Occurred: over 6 months ago

2.	Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH) Occurred: over 3 months ago

3.	Error: Nicht mehr funktionsfhig (APPCRASH) Occurred: over 6 months ago

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.131072)

Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608)

Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic (6.0.6002.131072)

Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)

Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)

Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Enterprise (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Home Basic (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7601.65536)

About VideoLAN

A project and a non-profit organization, composed of volunteers developing and promoting free, open-source multimedia solutions. The VideoLAN project is a proje More...

www.videolan.org

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File details

File name: vlc.exe

Publisher: VideoLAN

Name: VLC media player

Description: VLC media player 2.0.3

Version: 2.0.7

Product version: 2,0,7,0

Original file name: vlc.exe

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages

Total CPU: 0.0964002084%

Privileged CPU: 0.0088266847%

User CPU: 0.08757352372136%

Privileged CPU time: 146540312.5 ms

Privileged CPU time /min: 0 ms

CPU cycle count: 906,084,114

Context switches /sec: 3,335

Memory utilization averages

Committed memory: 183.68 MB

Peak committed memory: 199.32 MB

Paged memory: 47.42 MB

Peak paged memory: 59.34 MB

Paged system memory: 125.85 KB

Non-paged system memory: 14.11 KB

Working set memory: 47.87 MB

Peak working set memory: 51.24 MB

Min working set memory: 33.2 MB

Private memory: 47.42 MB

Page faults: 76,200

Page faults /min: 0

Process I/O averages

Total read operations: 32,684

Total read transfer: 275.14 MB

Total write operations: 88

Total write transfer: 341.42 KB

Total other operations: 21,476

Total other transfer: 835.63 KB

GDI objects: 128

Peak GDI objects: 110

USER objects: 62

Peak USER objects: 56

Resources

Handle count average: 518

Thread count average: 16

Process details

Runs as (owner): User

Windows platform: 32-bit

System Tray: Yes

Parent Processes

explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft)

Process Commands

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "C:\users\user\desktop\????? ???"

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"

Autoplay handler details

Name: VLCPlayVideoFilesOnArrival

Command: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\Handlers\VLCPlayVideoFilesOnArrival

Scheduled task details

CLSID: {B622746B-45AA-400B-980E-E3BDFFB86584}

Command: \{B622746B-45AA-400B-980E-E3BDFFB86584}

Network connectivity

Image hashes

MD5: 82fc307fb7800594975ed2791320db37

SHA-1: 048193c37563c3ead11882d215c302ebceb72b18

SHA-256: 696b5ac52d9134d79114195288ed25be1f07827a58f94e1a376199dde6bc330d

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows GUI

Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C++

Import Table

advapi32.dll View import functions for advapi32.dll

kernel32.dll View import functions for kernel32.dll

libvlc.dll View import functions for libvlc.dll

msvcrt.dll

psapi.dll

shell32.dll View import functions for shell32.dll

user32.dll View import functions for user32.dll

wininet.dll View import functions for wininet.dll

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