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Hi, I'm trying to update a quite old Media Player app I wrote years ago with VB6 (I know, this is history, but it's fine for me).
The original app was perfectly running on a Win 7 PC and it was using the MCI component.
Now I want to use VLC as player component since with Win10 there is no way to use MCI anymore.
My problem is I can not register the DLL; I copied the axvlc.dll from my PC program VLC folder into both System32 and SysWow64; when I give the command from inside the CMD window:
> C:\\windows\SysWow64 (or even in System32)
regsvr32 axvlc.dll
I ger the error: "Unable to load the specified module" (or something similar, it is in Italian)

I tried to add the reference to the DLL from the Reference windows; it does not return any error.
I also copied the the axvlc.dll inside my app folder; strangerly the reference windows still only shows the dll from the SysWOW64 folder and never from my app.

In my VB app I have these lines:
[in a BAS module] Public VLCplayer As AXVLC.VLCPlugin2
[in the main form] Set VLCplayer = New AXVLC.VLCPlugin2
This last line gives a 'Not registered interface' error; actually, the Espression Control window reporte an empty object at this line.

So the question: how can I register the dll? (or there is a different way) ?
Thanks

Maybe you're trying to install the 32-bit version on a 64-bit system, or vice versa.
BTW, you must specify the whole path of the DLL:
regsvr32 C:\windows\SysWow64\axvlc.dll

On a side note, ActiveX is outdated and deprecated, not supported by Microsoft and by recent browsers anymore, and no one should still use ActiveX nowadays.

Actually I'm installing the 32bit version of DLL (tried various releases, i.e. 1.1, 2.0, 2.1...) to be used by my VB6 program, a 32bit app.
That is in the SysWOW64 folder of my Win10 (64bit) PC.
Specifying the whole dll path with RegSvr32 or not does not change anything; the error message is the same.

A side note: my VB6 App works fine and smoothly with MS Media Player; unfortunately, I don't lile Media Player, I can not fully understand the cryptic MS documentation and finally it lacks of some nice VLC features. At the end, if I can not fix the registration issue I will be forced to use Media Player

Try to register it from another location because the SysWow64 folder might be somehow protected.

No way, there is an added problem in VB6.
If I delete the DDL from SysWOW64 and then in VB6 I try to reference the DLL which is inside my local app folder, VB6 still shows it in syswow64, never at the path I gave.
I played a little with RegEdit trying to find where the DLL is defined and stored, without success.

A last hope and invocation: is there any VLC user who has manually registered the dll (32 or 64bit) in Windows 10 64 bit?
I repeat here my failing attempt (CMD window at C:\\windows\SysWow64):
regsvr32 C:\\windows\SysWow64\axvlc.dll

if not, I think I'll give up...sorry for the fantastic VLC.

regsvr32 C:\\windows\SysWow64\axvlc.dll

Notice the \\ after C:
There should be only one \
I don't know how you got this but I'm not sure that would work.

Anyway, that looks like more a Windows problem to me than a VLC trouble.