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.”
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.
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.
Community
| 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, 55.0% have disabled it. |
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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.
How resource intensive is vlc.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
 | 0.49607% CPU4960721.1% |
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
 | 7.08 MB RAM32.9% |
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
 | 87 GDI objects58.0% |
Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.
 | 130 context switches/sec130.0% |
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?
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?
VLC media player Stability
vlc.exe crashes or has encountered a critical error 0.8900% of the time.
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| 1. | Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH) Crashing module: libmkv_plugin.dll (still researching...) Occurred: over 6 months ago |
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| 2. | Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH) Crashing module: libmkv_plugin.dll (still researching...) Occurred: over 6 months ago |
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| 3. | Error: (APPCRASH) Occurred: over 6 months ago |
What Windows OS versions does this run on?
Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6000.0)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows 7 Home Premium (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 Ultimate N (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Ultimate (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
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