Try this. it will work. VARIANT vOptions; long pos=0; LPSAFEARRAY m_pSA = SafeArrayCreateVector(VT_VARIANT, 0, 1); _variant_t var(_bstr_t("")); SafeArrayPutElement(m_pSA, &pos, (void FAR*)&var); vOptions.parray = m_pSA; vOptions.vt = VT_NULL ; long lPos=-666; long lmode=10;//VLCPla...