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Well, thanks for replying at least! It shows there is life out there... maybe someone else will notice the thread at this rate and have some idea why it's not working!

hmmm. great forum this... would be nice if someone technical occasionally answered a question...

I'm not entirely sure what version of the activeX object I'm using (the object declaration is: Dim vlc As AxAXVLC.AxVLCPlugin2 = AxVLCPlugin21) I'm trying to create a REALLY simple player that is completely controlled by backend code. I have a serial port connection that is firing in playlist items ...

Update: it was me. I'd cracked the problem using the delegate. The new problem only became visible when I was looking at the log messages and it was saying, "can't open file". I realised that I was passing a carriage return in the filename too. Works a charm when that is stripped off!

Hi all. Just started doing a vb.net prog. Very simple concept, the player sits there listening for events on the serial port, once received, it starts playing that media. If I put a drop down box on the page and select the media file, it successfully plays the media like this: (in "play" b...