Full Version: Changing the default movie player
I am trying to change the default movie player from Quicktime to VLC, however, I do not see anything in the preferences pane to do so? Can anyone tell me how to go about this?
Right click on the file type you want changed, click open with, pick VLC and then press change all.
Or you can do what I did and just delete quicktime.app, then VLC will take over all file types QT used to play.
Or you can do what I did and just delete quicktime.app, then VLC will take over all file types QT used to play.
What is MiniVLC?
Quote - (burning_jonny @ Sep 28 2004, 17:40)
What is MiniVLC?
A small media player I made that combines the speed of mplayer-cvs with the nice icons from VLC.
All it does is run 'mplayer $' from the command line when I open a file. On a G3 mplayer is a lot better then VLC for large movie files.
I used to use MplayerOSX2, but its interface and icons looked pretty bad, and I always liked the icons from VLC, so I made this. There isn't a interface (yet) just a movie screen and keyboard shortcuts.
Ahh, thank you! 
So it really should be called "MiniVLC-esqueMPlayerOSX" since it's not VLC at all!
I like MPlayer can't touch VLC in my opinion, and I have a computer fast enough to run both. It's a good thing you can figure out how to make your own apps though, because I wouldn't have the patience.
I like MPlayer can't touch VLC in my opinion, and I have a computer fast enough to run both. It's a good thing you can figure out how to make your own apps though, because I wouldn't have the patience.
Quote - (burning_jonny @ Sep 29 2004, 18:14)
So it really should be called "MiniVLC-esqueMPlayerOSX" since it's not VLC at all!
I like MPlayer can't touch VLC in my opinion, and I have a computer fast enough to run both. It's a good thing you can figure out how to make your own apps though, because I wouldn't have the patience.
I like MPlayer can't touch VLC in my opinion, and I have a computer fast enough to run both. It's a good thing you can figure out how to make your own apps though, because I wouldn't have the patience.
Well VLC is also based on ffmpeg, so they are really similer. But your right.
I dont know what makes mplayer so fast, but even on old PCs (less then 450mhz) mplayer will play mpeg4 files better then anything else I have tried.
I made the .app with platypus it is a pretty cool program to make .app packages out of scripts.
Here is the code for it if you are interested, it is just a modified version of a script inclded with platypus.
CODE
#!/usr/bin/perl
$cnt = 0;
# loop through list of files dropped
foreach(@ARGV)
{
if ($cnt != 0) # We ignore the first argument (the app bundle path)
{
system("/usr/local/bin/mplayer '$_'");
}
$cnt++;
}
$cnt = 0;
# loop through list of files dropped
foreach(@ARGV)
{
if ($cnt != 0) # We ignore the first argument (the app bundle path)
{
system("/usr/local/bin/mplayer '$_'");
}
$cnt++;
}
This player is good for almost everything I watch, but I still have 5 other media players which is anoying.
VLC - plays some things that mplayer wont
QuickTime - Plays .mov files in webpages
RealPlayer - not to bad of a program anymore, but it is quicktime with a new interface. I rarly use it, it needs more features like playlist support.
WMP - Plays WMA/V files, I rarly use it.
DVD Player - I use it for DVDs, the interface is nice. mplayer/VLC will also play DVDs, but I use this for smoother playback.
DVD player has inconsistent audio though, it sometimes just doesn't play.
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