VLC media player help

[nbrege]

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

[2kaud]

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

[-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

[nbrege]

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

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...

[-Franky-]

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...

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.