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1. #MAKING VLC DEFAULT PLAYER HOW TO#
2. #MAKING VLC DEFAULT PLAYER UPGRADE#
3. #MAKING VLC DEFAULT PLAYER WINDOWS 10#

You will also see the famous traffic cone icon in the thumbnails of the media files. The next time you open video files, VLC will be the program to open it. The options are saved immediately after the settings are changed. If you want to do it for music files as well, do the same thing for the choice present as Music player.Under Choose Default apps, for the Video player click on Movies & TV and switch to VLC Media Player.Click on the Windows Start button, search for and go to Settings.Here are the detailed steps to make VLC the default media (video as well as audio) player:

Windows will set back the association to VLC for recognized video and audio files. We can make it work for all video and audio files at once. You do not have to do it on an extension by extension basis while the option is still there. The option available in the main Settings > System > Default apps gives us the ability to change it back. If you want to do it then we can simply set it as the default video and music player app. All the music files are handled by Groove Music and the default video player is the Movies & TV app.Ī lot of us want to switch back to VLC to make it the default media player.

#MAKING VLC DEFAULT PLAYER UPGRADE#

But the thing is, the upgrade changes the default media players from VLC to some other Windows app. Almost all apps and software installed in the computer before the upgrade are there.

#MAKING VLC DEFAULT PLAYER WINDOWS 10#

To exit and enter fullscreen in VLC, just press the "f" key.A lot of desktop and laptop users have now upgraded to Windows 10 for free. Note: Remember to enable deinterlacing in VLC > Video > Deinterlace if you see any artifacts during playback, or if playback doesn't work correctly (the same is true with some AVI files also). Or to have DVD playback automatically launch in fullscreen:Ĭlose the VLC properties dialog and exit the menu editor. Scroll down the list of applications displayed until you see "VLC media player", right-click on it, then click on "Properties" in the context menu to open "Launcher Properties" and change the launch command from "wxvlc %F" to: Navigate down to "Sound & Video" in the left pane and click on it to show all those applications in the pane to the right. Right-click on "Applications" in the top panel and select "Edit Menus" to open the default menu editor. If that still doesn't solve your issue, or you just want more features enabled upon launch (such as fullscreen upon launch), follow the intructions in the next paragraph. If playback doesn't work properly, navigate to Video > Deinterlace within VLC and select mode "Blend". Next, navigate to Places > Computer > Edit > Preferences > Media > DVD Video and make sure VLC is selected, then test whether automatic launch and playback with VLC works for you by inserting a DVD. Press Ctrl+f and search for "x-content/video", then change the "sktop" entries to "vlc.desktop".

To change the default DVD player in Hardy Heron to VLC (not Kubuntu, issues with Xubuntu), copy and paste this command into the terminal:

#MAKING VLC DEFAULT PLAYER HOW TO#

I may be struggling to get VLC to play DVD but here is how to make VLC default: