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Thanks folks. I've written this helper class for locating the VLC installation and plugins folder, and for adding them to the path environment variable without messing about with .bat files. using System; using Microsoft.Win32; // for registry access using System.IO; // for Path namespace Simon { //...

I found adding both the vlc directory and vlc/plugins directory to the environment variable PATH worked wonders with an issue similar to this. Thank you for the suggestion, that seems to have resolved it. At least I'm not getting the DllNotFoundException any more. I'm running the test harness inclu...

Further research turned up this post http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vclanguage/thread/bc7a7414-6564-40bb-b8d2-af86345f2bc2/ which blames Internet Explorer 7 for referencing dwmapi.dll, which is a part of Windows Vista and is not supplied with XP. I installed IE 8 beta 2 and that seems...

Some more information... I used http://www.dependencywalker.com/ to try and work out exactly what is missing from the dependency tree, and it is reporting that two files, dwmapi.dll and efsadu.dll, could not be found. It is also reporting problems with two further files: \windows\system32\shlwapi.dl...

Hi folks. I'm trying to write a C# windows forms application which will use libvlc to play media files from the local hard disk. On my travels around this forum and other VLC related sites, I found three wrappers which all look like good candidates for allowing me to use libvlc from within a .net ap...