VLC Media Player

When I had to view one of Steve's video updates a while back it asked to install VLC Media Player to view
it , now it behaves as the default media player in my computer, instead of windows media player ,
I cannot choose what or when I use it .
There is no choices in the programme anywhere to change it , even in the help section ,which is online .
Can anyone help and did anyone else have this problem .

Thanks .

VLC is good for viewing certain type of movies. i think i use it for ones downloaded from youtube.

If you want to change the default player, jus right click on a movie file and selec 'choose default player' and then you can select from a few different programs. just select the one you want and tick the default player button and that should be it.

Terryw
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Right click on Start icon at left bottom corner of windows
Select Explore with a left click of mouse
Select Tools from tabs at top of windows explorer window that came up
From the pull down menu select folder options and click left mouse button
left click the mouse with the pointer over the file types tab.
go down to ASF file type it will state it opens with VCL
click on edit and change the program to open with windows media player
go down the list and change each video file type to open with media player.

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If using windows XP right click on file and select open with
then select choose program
pick program and
select the tick box always use the selected program to open files of this type
 

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Cheers Duckster , this worked a treat . Not the other method .The drop down boxes usually gave 2 choices for files , but some gave only the one choice as a recommended one , and other choices below ; I reckoned that better to stick to  windows recommended  ones , in case it caused instabilities  to file types . 

 Thanks heaps . 

i certainly agree that VLC is good ..
i use vlc in viewing videos and its great... 

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You can change the file type associations by right clicking on Start and selecting explore
Then click on tools
Click on file types tab
Scroll down to the file type and click on it
click on file extension used by video
and change it to play with media player.

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