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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.

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, 48.0% 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.
0.00851% CPU85119.9%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
38.52 MB RAM178.9%
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
     90 /min4.0%
Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.
111 GDI objects74.0%
Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.
1,240 context switches/sec1240.0%
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?

vlc.exe - version 2.1.0-rc1
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 (this)
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
libaout_directx_plugin.dll
libwaveout_plugin.dll
libdirectx_plugin.dll
libmemcpymmxext_plugin.dll
libhotkeys_plugin.dll
libglobalhotkeys_plugin.dll
libqt4_plugin.dll
liblua_plugin.dll
igdumd32.dll (Intel Graphics Accelerator Drivers for Windows Vista(R) by Intel)
igdumdx32.dll (Intel Graphics Accelerator Drivers for Windows Vista(R) by Intel)
libxml_plugin.dll
liblibbluray_plugin.dll
libaccess_bd_plugin.dll
libdvdnav_plugin.dll
libaccess_vdr_plugin.dll
libfilesystem_plugin.dll
libstream_filter_httplive_plugin.dll
libstream_filter_dash_plugin.dll
libstream_filter_rar_plugin.dll
libzip_plugin.dll
libstream_filter_record_plugin.dll
libplaylist_plugin.dll
libtaglib_plugin.dll
libmp4_plugin.dll
libpng_plugin.dll
libcdg_plugin.dll
libschroedinger_plugin.dll
libaraw_plugin.dll
libvorbis_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)
utorrent.exe (µTorrent by BitTorrent)

VLC media player Stability

vlc.exe crashes or has encountered a critical error 0.8900% of the time.
1.  
Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH)
Occurred: over 3 months ago
2.  
Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH)
Occurred on: October 9, 2013
3.  
Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH)

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.131072)
Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608)
Windows Vista (TM) Business (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Ultimate N (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Home Basic (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)
Windows 8 (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: 2.0.3
Product version: 2,0,3,0
Size: 106 KB
Original file name: vlc.exe

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 0.0123920760%
Privileged CPU: 0.0038800880%
User CPU: 0.00851198797663%
Privileged CPU time: 30911.05 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 11 ms
CPU cycle count: 669,165,301
CPU cycle count /min: 835,804,610
Context switches /sec: 1,240
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 198.41 MB
Peak committed memory: 248.03 MB
Paged memory: 38.52 MB
Peak paged memory: 81.1 MB
Paged system memory: 229.8 KB
Non-paged system memory: 17.85 KB
Working set memory: 31.32 MB
Peak working set memory: 63.78 MB
Min working set memory: 25.2 MB
Private memory: 38.52 MB
Page faults: 75,459
Page faults /min: 153
Process I/O averages
Total read operations: 70,600
Read operations /min: 16
Total read transfer: 266.97 MB
Read transfer /min: 95.59 KB
Total write operations: 64
Write operations /min: 2
Total write transfer: 253.13 KB
Write transfer /min: 5.04 KB
Total other operations: 11,953
Other operations /min: 25
Total other transfer: 919.76 KB
Other Transfer /min: 1.4 KB
GUI Object Averages
GDI objects: 111
Peak GDI objects: 121
USER objects: 61
Peak USER objects: 74
Resources
Handle count average: 395
Thread count average: 13
Thread resource averages
msvcrt.dll
dsound.dll
wow64.dll
msvcrt.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): User
Integrety level: Medium
Windows platform: 32-bit
System Tray: Yes
Parent Processes
explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft)
utorrent.exe (µTorrent by BitTorrent Inc)
Process Commands
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file "C:\Downloads\TV\Homeland.S02E05.HDTV.x264-ASAP.mp4"
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"

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

Windows Firewall allowed program: Yes

Image hashes

MD5: 0c968e011268429c1d218169233c06f7
SHA-1: ca2b972258cd90345fa01b39b62308e50d961310
SHA-256: e0274225271b8d2e2644fc5318e9d98a264b73d5ffd629cfcae866a93651717c

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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