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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.

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, 60.0% have disabled it.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Program Files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe

Are there other versions of VLC media player?

vlc.exe - version 2.1.1
vlc.exe - version 2.1.0-rc1
vlc.exe - version 2.1.0-git-20130320-0015 (this)
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 else is related?

libvlccore.dll (VLC media player by VideoLAN)
libvlc.dll (VLC media player by VideoLAN)
axvlc.dll (VLC media player (Activex Plugin) by VideoLAN)
npvlc.dll (VLC Web Plugin by VideoLAN)
axvlc.dll (VLC Web Plugin by VideoLAN)

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows 8 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: 2.1.0-git-20130320-0015
Product version: 2,1,0,0
Size: 123 KB
Original file name: vlc.exe

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: 8737d6efb24548a254845b5346684610
SHA-1: b9e3555678672c9417adf1266b0fa25c49c9caf9

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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