We are using a nightly build of VLC and AxVLC in our VB6 application. I have observed that the standalone installer of VLC Media Player on Windows now includes a plugins folder and no longer has a locale folder in the Program Files installation folder. Since there is no up-to-date documentation, through trial and error I was able to make an MSI with InstallShield Express that includes what appears to be all the correct dependencies and voila, our application installs and runs correctly. Here is the list of files that I include: axvlc.dll (self-register), libvlc.dll, libvlccore.dll and the complete plugins sub-folder.
The issue is that the plugins sub-folder is 700+MB in size. We would like to eliminate the size of this folder by removing anything and everything that is not compltely necessary.
In broad strokes, what is contained in the plugins folder? A simply but complete listing would suffice. Are there files and/or folders that could be eliminated that perhaps pertain strickly to the Media Player and are not required by the ActiveX component?