SOHDms.exe
Sony Home Network Library by Sony Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 2.1.0.14040 |
| MD5: | c1cd71c672ea281a424fbcf24ac99553 |
| SHA1: | 7353ce2d3360aff9f13ddd9e4367c140cb158f2d |
| SHA256: | 3c25d36ea36c5acf7ad4be47935dd055dca010ace4b1a7089493e5f282cdfa7b |
What is SOHDms.exe?
VAIO Media plus Digital Media Server for the Sony Home Network Library is part of the VAIO Entertainment framework, software that enables the delivery and viewing of content (music, photos, videos and TV) among devices connected to a home network. The software is pre-installed with most VAIO PCs.
Overview
sohdms.exe runs as a service under the name Sony Digital Media Server (SOHDms) within the local user context. It is an auto-starting process that used the Windows Task Scheduler service to load when the user logs into Windows (sometimes this is required to bypass the UAC protection). This is typically installed with the program Sony Home Network Library published by Sony Corporation. The file is digitally signed by Sony Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | sohdms.exe |
| Publisher: | Sony Corporation |
| Product name: | Sony Home Network Library |
| Description: | VAIO Media plus Digital Media Server |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\sony shared\sohlib\sohdms.exe |
| File version: | 2.1.0.14040 |
| Size: | 412.86 KB (422,768 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Sony Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
Sony Home Network Library is a program that supports sharing of Media and Media Plus files with other computers using the same network protocol.
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'SOHDms' (Sony Digital Media Server)
- SOHDms
Scheduled tasks
- The job 'SOHLib SOHDms' runs on logon in the path '\Sony Corporation\Sony Home Network Library\SOHLib SOHDms'
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\Sony Corporation\Sony Home Network Library\SOHLib SOHDms'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00031086% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00014542% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00016543% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,092,007 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 76,531/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.85 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 22.1 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 8.27 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.85 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 63.13 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 64.43 MB | |
| Working set: | 21.95 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 22.1 MB | |
| Page faults: | 10,953/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 93 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 4/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 5 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 37 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 5/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 8 | |
| Handles: | 147 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\common files\sony shared\sohlib\sohdms.exe" |
| Owner: | User |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | SOHDms |
| Display name: | Sony Digital Media Server |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
45.16% |
|
| Windows 8 |
25.81% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
16.13% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
3.23% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
3.23% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
3.23% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
3.23% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 19.35% of Sony Home Network Library.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Sony |
98.11% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
1.89% |
|
