Changing the default movie player

[SkyFox]

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?

[PureEdit]

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.

[burning_jonny]

What is MiniVLC?

[PureEdit]

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.

[SkyFox]

Ahh, thank you! :D

[burning_jonny]

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.

[PureEdit]

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.

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.

#!/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++;
}

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.

Edited September 30, 2004 by PureEdit

[SkyFox]

DVD player has inconsistent audio though, it sometimes just doesn't play.