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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?

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.

What else is related?

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...
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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
Size: 123.5 KB
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
GUI Object Averages
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
ntdll.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): User
Integrety level: High
Windows platform: 64-bit
Parent Process
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"

Autoplay handler details

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

Scheduled task details

CLSID: {C332D368-7A85-4C00-8EA0-669CC82BFBC8}
Command: \{C332D368-7A85-4C00-8EA0-669CC82BFBC8}

Network connectivity

Windows Firewall allowed program: Yes

Image hashes

MD5: 73a6bf01391cd65dbe9bbcb7300a9863
SHA-1: 2fbadd13acdb5ce7bb60d79545a827c11f938de9

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows GUI
Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C++
File packed: No
Import Table
advapi32.dll
kernel32.dll
libvlc.dll
msvcrt.dll
psapi.dll
shell32.dll
user32.dll
wininet.dll
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