OK, I have tried the following with no success....
1) Calling "Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(....)" to the directory containing the plugins folder prior to playing a video
2) Setting HKLM\Software\VideoLAN\VLC\InstallDir to point to my install location
3) Setting HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AXVLC.dll to point to the copy in my installed location.
4) Changing the "PATH" environment variable to include the location of the plugins folder
5) Adding switches to my command line of my app hoping the control would pick them up.
6) Watching with REGMON to see if I could see any registry read attempt that looked promissing.
Surely SOMEONE must know how to do this, or at the very least can tell me that it can not be done so that I can give up
Any help?!?!?! Please !!!!!!