VLC media player help

I'm trying to use the VLC media player on a winforms project to play video. I added the VLC NuGet package to my project, added the VLC control to my toolbox items & added the VLC control to my form. When I run the program I get an error that says 'VlcLibDirectory' must be set. After almost an hour of searching I can't find anything that tells me what 'VlcLibDirectory' should be set to. So just taking a stab at what it might be looking for I set that setting to the location of the VLC dll, which is "D:\VB\Projects\VlcTest\packages\Vlc.DotNet.Forms.3.1.0\lib\net45" for this project. When I run it again I now get an error that says "Unable to find the specified file". The setting name implies it's looking for a directory, but the error implies it's looking for a file, so I have no idea what it's looking for or how to make it work at this point. I know VLC is a very popular control & used in lots of other apps. Has anyone used this control before that can help me figure this out? Thanks...

The documentation for that setting is of no help...
https://zebobo5.github.io/Vlc.DotNet...ae16ba03ad.htm

This is for c# but should help with the way forward
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...tory-not-found

Does it have to be VLC media player? As an alternative, I would suggest the Windows Media Foundation. From WinVista -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...ed-media-files From Win8 you can also use the interfaces IMFMediaEngine / IMFMediaEngineEx.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...imfmediaengine
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...fmediaengineex

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Originally Posted by -Franky-

Does it have to be VLC media player? As an alternative, I would suggest the Windows Media Foundation. From WinVista -> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...ed-media-files From Win8 you can also use the interfaces IMFMediaEngine / IMFMediaEngineEx.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...imfmediaengine
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...fmediaengineex

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Does this work in .Net? All the code samples are C++. I know I can embed a Windows Media Player control on a form, but I was looking for something with a few more features...

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Originally Posted by nbrege

Does this work in .Net? All the code samples are C++. I know I can embed a Windows Media Player control on a form, but I was looking for something with a few more features...

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Yes, it works in all programming languages that can handle COM. You might have to describe which features your player should have.

You can use COM interfaces in VB.NET via <ComImport>. The rest are normal DLL calls, const, structs and enums.