How can I set the default Video Player for video is to VLC player? In my Mac OS X, Quicktime is the default Video Player. Each and every video I need to manually set VLC as Video Player. Are you facing the above mentioned problem? If so, here is the solution to fix this problem.
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Setting Default Media Player in Mac
- Referring to your question, you can do as following to change some files' default player. Select one of your files in finder and click right mouse Get Info. In the Info window, go to Open with: From the pull down menu select Macgo Blu-ray Player(or other player you would like to make default).
- I have a windows 10 host OS where I have installed vmware workstation 12 player. I have an Xubuntu as a guest OS (virtual machine). The complication is: the text is too small in guest OS and almost unreadable. The steps that I have already taken to rectify the problem are given below.
- Right click on the file you wish to always open in VLC.
- Click “Get Info”.
- In the “Open With” section, select VLC from the drop down menu. In the below screenshot “The Bourne Legacy“ movie with *.mp4 file format’s default media player is changed.
Default Video Player
- To apply this change to all files of this type, click the ‘Change All’ button.
Change Default Video Mac
That’s it 🙂