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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 64-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account. vlc.exe is executed by the process utorrent.exe (µTorrent by BitTorrent Inc).

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 0.1% of all Boost users have the vlc.exe process running.	Of the 0.1% of vlc.exe users, 63.0% have disabled it.

How resource intensive is vlc.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

0.00061% CPU6121.3%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

94.13 MB RAM437.1%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

131 GDI objects87.3%

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

Typical file (disk image) location:

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

Are there other versions of VLC media player?

vlc.exe - version 2.1.2 (this)

vlc.exe - version 2.1.1

vlc.exe - version 2.1.0-rc1

vlc.exe - version 2.1.0-git-20130320-0015

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

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)

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)

utorrent.exe (µTorrent by BitTorrent)

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 8 Enterprise (6.2.9200.0)

Windows 8.1 (6.2.9200.0)

Windows 8.1 Pro (6.2.9200.0)

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: 2.1.2

Product version: 2,1,2,0

Original file name: vlc.exe

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages

Total CPU: 0.0007819648%

Privileged CPU: 0.0001698301%

User CPU: 0.00061213473767%

Privileged CPU time: 1075876.5 ms

Privileged CPU time /min: 0 ms

CPU cycle count: 1,350,644,759

Memory utilization averages

Committed memory: 313.67 MB

Peak committed memory: 362.41 MB

Paged memory: 94.13 MB

Peak paged memory: 132.13 MB

Paged system memory: 339.76 KB

Non-paged system memory: 40.87 KB

Working set memory: 81.97 MB

Peak working set memory: 101.83 MB

Min working set memory: 34.32 MB

Private memory: 94.13 MB

Page faults: 480,458

Page faults /min: 0

Process I/O averages

Total read operations: 159,791

Total read transfer: 1.16 GB

Total write operations: 64

Total write transfer: 251.26 KB

Total other operations: 8,995

Total other transfer: 1.57 MB

GDI objects: 131

Peak GDI objects: 147

USER objects: 76

Peak USER objects: 87

Resources

Handle count average: 530

Thread count average: 25

Thread resource averages

wow64.dll

vlc.exe

ntdll.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): User

Windows platform: 64-bit

Parent Process

utorrent.exe (µTorrent by BitTorrent Inc)

Process Command

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file "C:\Users\Morgan\Downloads\Britains.Craziest.Christmas.Lights.540p.PDTV.x264.AAC.MVGroup.org.mp4"