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    setting default movie viewer

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by fredf, Jan 1, 2009.

  1. fredf

    fredf Notebook Consultant

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    On my son's advice I downloaded VLC as a movie viewer. I used to used Media Player, which I understand and was easy to make playlists.
    However, most times I start a downloaded movie it plays in QuickTime, which I hate.
    How can I make VLC my default movie player?

    ps: I am using Safari
     
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    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    It doesn't matter which browser you downloaded the movie with. The file associations matter.

    Try this (I just learned this myself):

    Right click on one of your downloaded movie files > Get Info >
    find the 'Open With' section and choose VLC from the drop-down list, and most importantly click on the "Change All" button.

    That will set all the files of that kind (.avi or whatever) to play with VLC...
     
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  3. fredf

    fredf Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks, I've done that and .wmv movies are starting in VLC. But most movies don't 'download', they simply open in Qtime so I don't have the option of R clicking and setting it.
    Any ideas how to deal with these?
     
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  4. circa86

    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    are you talking about a Quicktime video playing back directly in Safari I imagine?

    in that case, you can actually just right click on the link that takes you to the particular QT movie and just save it as a movie file, or you can adjust Safari's preferences to not always try to play back directly in the browser window.

    it isn't that "Quicktime Player" is opening, Safari is using the "Quicktime" framework (that is part of the OS) to play back a movie file right in the browser.
     
    circa86, Jan 1, 2009
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