What do the crash report contain. Does it break privacy?

[fluor]

I wonder what is transferred when sending a crash report.
1. Does it include the filename crashing?
2. Does it include other config like recent items?
3. Why is there no info on this, and no option for disabling this?

[VLC_help]

I have example dump pasted below

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[version] OS=6.0.6002.2.Service Pack 2 VLC=1.1.2 The Luggage [exceptions] c0000005 at 6861e792 [context] EDI:00000000 ESI:0257c840 EBX:0000001e EDX:00000008 ECX:00000018 EAX:ffffffe0 EBP:02f8cb00 EIP:6861e792 ESP:02f8cad8 [stacktrace] #EIP|base|module 6861e792|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\libvlccore.dll 6862fe8f|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\libvlccore.dll 6861cbfa|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\libvlccore.dll 70b62590|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libhotkeys_plugin.dll 686567db|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\libvlccore.dll 68656b3e|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\libvlccore.dll 68648dc5|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\libvlccore.dll 686568a9|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\libvlccore.dll 68656b3e|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\libvlccore.dll 64032e5d|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 641faa20|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 6420f1f0|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 641d3a24|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 641dab80|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 6466f260|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 645df034|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 645e1255|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 644207fe|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 7789fd72|C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll 7789fe4a|C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll 778a018d|C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll 778a022b|C:\Windows\system32\USER32.dll 6470c1ad|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 6441bb63|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 646feca6|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 646fee4b|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 646704c3|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 64023147|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\plugins\libqt4_plugin.dll 6866127a|C:\softa\vlc-1.1.2\libvlccore.dll 764a2599|C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll 764a26b3|C:\Windows\system32\msvcrt.dll 765ad0e9|C:\Windows\system32\kernel32.dll 779e19bb|C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll 779e198e|C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll

so it will reveal your OS and VLC version, install directory of VLC and Windows, some loaded VLC plugins, crashing code location and register values. Also file is uploaded using ftp protocol so your IP address might be stored somewhere between your computer and VLC server.

You can open the %appdata%\vlc\crashdump file with any text editor if you are interested about the content.

[fluor]

thank you very much. my %appdata%\vlc directory has no such folder. i only see an "art" folder. but that's okay.

[Ludrax]

thank you very much. my %appdata%\vlc directory has no such folder. i only see an "art" folder. but that's okay.

you will
How to crash vlc

3. Why is there no info on this, and no option for disabling this?

Maybe there should be something similar
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