VHX ActiveX wraps VLC media player into an out-of-process ActiveX component for use with OLE/COM languages.

VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software developed by the VideoLAN project. This implementation is a robust and stable wrapper of VLC media player for apartment threading programs, which implements a different instantiation model vs. default VLC ActiveX.

Key Features

• Add stable VLC media player support to your Desktop Applications
• Support for legacy Windows and Programming Languages
• Wraps VLC media library with an out-of-process architecture
• Blazing fast initialization and events
• Plays everything - Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams
• Plays all modern codecs with no additional codec packs MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3

Compatibility

The following programming languages and IDE are compatible with VHX:

• Visual Basic 6.0 SP6
• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2010/2015/2017 (VB.Net, C#)
• Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications 2003/2007/2010/2015/2016 (VBA, Access, Excel, etc.)
• Borland Delphi (down to version 5.0)
• Embarcadero RAD Studio (any Windows version)
• Qt (any Windows version)
• Xojo 2017 (any Windows version)
• Visual FoxPro
• PowerBuilder
• WinBatch
• Internet Explorer (requires NirSoft ActiveX Compatibility Manager)
• Ruby (via the 'win32ole' library included in the standard Ruby 1.8.x or later distribution)
• dBase (from 12 Plus down to 2.80 Plus)
• Rockwell FactoryTalk