Recommended: Many users don’t really want to use Windows Media Player, and several other users want their media player to perform specific functions, a host of which VLC can perform well. But since Windows 10 does not have VLC media player set as default, it can get pretty inconvenient for users to ask the system for individual media to be played using VLC each time. But you can easily set VLC media player as default by following these simple steps:. Click on the Start button. Choose Settings from the Start menu.
Under Settings, click on System (subheading: Display, notifications, apps, power). Click on from the left hand side menu of System. On the other side, under Choose default apps, select “Music” given for Music player and “Video” for Video player. A window called “Choose an App” will be displayed. Choose VLC media player from the given list after clicking video player,. Similarly click Music player and set VLC as default.
Feb 14, 2011 - Any idea how to set VLC as the default player for different file types? You want ALL files of that type to always open with a certain application,. Open the downloaded file. In appeared window drag 'vlc' file to 'applications' folder. After the installation is done, go to 'application' folder. Double-click on 'vlc' application.
How to Set VLC as default even for Mp4 files But by default, VLC will not play your MP4 files even after you have manually set VLC as your default media player. You can of course right click on MP4 files when you want to watch them, and then ask to play using VLC, but it would be easier to fix it as default once and never have to worry about it again. That can be rectified quite easily, if you follow these steps:. Open the Start menu and choose Settings. Choose the System category under Settings. Click on Default apps on the left side of the System menu. Click on “Choose default apps by file type” option.
You will need to keep scrolling down until you see “.mp4”. Click on.mp4 and choose VLC media player from the box of options that appears. This sets VLC as default for playing your MP4 files as well. What to do if VLC doesn’t appear on the list of apps in Default apps A reason why VLC may not be appearing as media player under the “Choose an app” heading could be that your system is unable to recognize VLC media player as a media player. While this is not a usual problem, if it does occur, there is an easy way to troubleshoot. This method will work even if taking steps such as selecting preferences in VLC to make it default, did not work.
This is what you need to do:. Choose any music file on your computer and right click on it. Click on “Open with” from the options that appear, and then select “Choose another app”. At the bottom of the list of apps that appear, click on “More apps”. Yet again scroll until you get the “Look for another app on this PC option”.
Make your way to the location of VLC media player on your computer, from the Open dialog box that appears. Click on Open, and then close VLC. VLC will now appear in the list of apps under “Choose an app”.
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If even this fails to work, and VLC does not appear in the Default Apps, open Local Disk C:, click on Program Files. Then scroll down to VideoLAN, and open vlc.exe from the VLC folder. This will definitely solve the problem.
You know how when you double-click a PNG file it opens in Preview? What if you want it to open in Photoshop by default instead?
This guide shows you how to to just that – change the default App that’s used when you open a file. Some common “I’d rather use this App when I open this kind of file” scenarios are:. Open PDF files with Preview instead of Adobe Acrobat. Open.txt files in an App other than Notepad. Open media files (MP3, MP4, AVI etc.) in VLC instead of iTunes or Quicktime The process to switch default Apps is super-fast and easy to do, and easy to change again later any time you want. For the sake of this guide we’re going to switch.M3U files (commonly used as playlists) from opening in iTunes to the media player VLC.
That doesn’t mean you need to do the same, this process is the identical no matter what type of file you’re dealing with. Locate a file of the type you want to switch. Right-click the file (or hold down the control button on your keyboard and then click on the file) and select Get Info from the context menu. A window will appear with all kinds of info about that file.
Locate the Open with: section and expand it (if necessary) by clicking the small ‘triangle’ icon. Click the ‘pull-down’ menu to open it. If the App you want to open this type of file with from now on is listed, select it. Congrats, you also get to skip down to step #7. If the App you want to open this file with is not listed – don’t worry, just click the Other item from the menu. A pop-up window will appear allowing you to pick the program you want to open this type of file with.
Find the App by first selecting Applications and then scroll through the list. When you find the App, select it by clicking on it once. Now skip down to step #6. If the App you want to use to open the file with is ‘greyed out’ and you can’t select it – no problem. Click the Enable: menu and select All Applications.
Now the App you want to select will not be greyed out. Make sure that the Always Open With box is checked, and then click the Add button. Almost done! Click the Change All button.
You’ll be prompted for confirmation – click Continue. Now just make sure that the App you want to use is the one listed as the (default) in the Open with: section. Repeat these steps for other file type associations you want to make.