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Prior to this update --plugin-path could be used though, that didn't make use of environment variables I don't believe. Is there a particular reason why this was disabled?

So I've discovered that VLC_PLUGIN_PATH must be an environment variable, not a Java System property. However this makes VLC extremely unportable when using java because you cannot alter any client's environment variables within java code (I don't know how easy this is for a .NET app either). Are the...

I am using vlcj 1.2.2 and the new official VLC 2.0 build on a Windows 32 machine. However, now when I try to set my plugin path (using System.setProperty("VLC_PLUGIN_PATH", some path) it cannot find the plugins. I have tried several variations of this and it only seems to work when the plu...