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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, 61.0% 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.

0.05206% CPU520628.8%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

20.02 MB RAM93.0%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

5 /min0.2%

Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.

99 GDI objects66.0%

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 2.1.0-rc1

vlc.exe - version 2.1.0-git

vlc.exe - version 2.1.0 (this)

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)

libdshow_plugin.dll

libwaveout_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_rar_plugin.dll

libzip_plugin.dll

libplaylist_plugin.dll

libschroedinger_plugin.dll

libmpeg_audio_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: A cess de fonctionner et a t ferm (AppHangXProcB1) Details: Un probl�me a provoqu� l arr�t de l interaction de ce programme avec Windows. Occurred on: October 10, 2013

2.	Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH) Occurred on: October 1, 2013

3.	Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH) Occurred on: October 1, 2013

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608)

Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)

Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 8.1 Pro Preview (6.2.9200.0)

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...

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: 2.1.0

Product version: 2,1,0,0

Original file name: vlc.exe

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages

Total CPU: 0.0618890574%

Privileged CPU: 0.0098261756%

User CPU: 0.05206288184271%

Privileged CPU time: 26208168 ms

Privileged CPU time /min: 307 ms

CPU cycle count: 1,959,507,129

CPU cycle count /min: 1,080,202

Memory utilization averages

Committed memory: 183.91 MB

Peak committed memory: 260.28 MB

Paged memory: 20.02 MB

Peak paged memory: 80.99 MB

Paged system memory: 139.56 KB

Non-paged system memory: 13.64 KB

Working set memory: 29.95 MB

Peak working set memory: 60.55 MB

Min working set memory: 29.91 MB

Private memory: 20.02 MB

Page faults: 18,133

Page faults /min: 1

Process I/O averages

Total read operations: 2,435

Read operations /min: 1

Total read transfer: 18.74 MB

Read transfer /min: 230 Bytes

Total other operations: 2,811

Other operations /min: 1

Total other transfer: 141.24 KB

Other Transfer /min: 2 Bytes

GDI objects: 99

Peak GDI objects: 114

USER objects: 52

Peak USER objects: 68

Resources

Handle count average: 348

Thread count average: 8

Process details

Runs as (owner): User

Windows platform: 32-bit

System Tray: Yes

Parent Process

explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft)

Process Command

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file "C:\Users\futur\Downloads\Video\J_en ai vu de toute taille - YouTube.mp4"

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: c3967ee40d7d552b871c097af863d51f

SHA-1: bfe8a4cdd6f5b2e83182a24f77b49fff2c16819b

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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