How to Embed VLC Player into my Windows Forms Appliction (C#>Net)

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Hey EveryOne ,
I want to embed( Vlc Player - coz is the best for running all kinda Audio/Video format out there ). But I am not able to progress any way on these lines .
I have check out videolan forums , found one article ( but was out of date ) ,
Now , any how have found out that vlcLib.dll and Plugins folders is all that we need to import as reference , but im not able to proceed on this as well.

Some error saying Unable to load dll ..... - File may not be managed library
Please help.
I am using Windows Forms Application.. Can Use WPF also ( if the suggestion works well - i know there is MediaElement and various other controls that help in audio video playback .- But Can't use it coz Uses Windows Media player ..)

I use VS2010 as IDE .
Dev Platform : Win 7

Please Do Help mee out of this .
-Regards

Posted 1-Jun-11 22:34pm

XtremLucky

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First register axvlc.dll from "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\axvlc.dll"

Then add it as com component

Posted 15-Jan-12 20:16pm

RasheshJagad

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needo8 26-May-15 2:15am

I am doing the same thing on Windows 7 i-e registring using REGSVR32 but i can not find reference of my activex component in COM components in VISUAL STUDIO 2010. Please tell me the reason ?

Solution 1

you can emmeded VLC Player in winforms via vlcActivex control
How to embed VLC control in c#.net windows application[^]

Posted 1-Jun-11 22:36pm

ambarishtv

Updated 1-Jun-11 22:44pm

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XtremLucky 2-Jun-11 4:39am

I have already checked it but didn't find the way out ...
U can check my comment in the thread - to which no response has been attained yet .
Thanks anywayz.

ambarishtv 2-Jun-11 4:48am

did you register that dll?
http://ss64.com/nt/regsvr32.html

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XtremLucky · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-05T01:08:00

Yeap ! I did follow the steps given @

How to embed VLC control in c#.net windows application
and its working !!
Thanks alot !! BUT BUT BUT
My applications .exe does not work on the machine that has no vlc Installed !.
Please Help !!
I want to embed an independent vlc player into my form how can i do that ?
Please Help mee outta this ..!!