Check if VLC is installed

Question

I\'m calling vlc from a C# app in order to play a video. I need a way to consistently check if VLC is installed. I\'ve tried checking registry keys, but they don\'t seem to

Answer 1

I ended up just checking HKLM\Software\VideoLAN\VLC\ on machines I could find it and giving the user an option in the settings to specify the path to VLC manually if it wasn't detected from that registry value.