If you don’t want your videos opening in Windows Media Player or QuickTime anymore, here’s how to make VLC your default media player. FLV files, it can also play video and audio CDs and DVDs. Not only can it play almost any media formats, from. This will definitely solve the problem.VLC Media Player is one of the best ways to watch videos and listen to music. Then scroll down to VideoLAN, and open vlc.exe from the VLC folder.
If even this fails to work, and VLC does not appear in the Default Apps, open Local Disk C:, click on Program Files. VLC will now appear in the list of apps under “Choose an app”. Make your way to the location of VLC media player on your computer, from the Open dialog box that appears. Yet again scroll until you get the “Look for another app on this PC option”. At the bottom of the list of apps that appear, click on “More apps”. Click on “Open with” from the options that appear, and then select “Choose another app”. 
Choose any music file on your computer and right click on it. This method will work even if taking steps such as selecting preferences in VLC to make it default, did not work. While this is not a usual problem, if it does occur, there is an easy way to troubleshoot. What to do if VLC doesn’t appear on the list of apps in Default appsĪ reason why VLC may not be appearing as media player under the “Choose an app” heading could be that your system is unable to recognize VLC media player as a media player. This sets VLC as default for playing your MP4 files as well. mp4 and choose VLC media player from the box of options that appears. You will need to keep scrolling down until you see “.mp4”. Click on “Choose default apps by file type” option. Click on Default apps on the left side of the System menu. Choose the System category under Settings. Open the Start menu and choose Settings. 
That can be rectified quite easily, if you follow these steps:
You can of course right click on MP4 files when you want to watch them, and then ask to play using VLC, but it would be easier to fix it as default once and never have to worry about it again. How to Set VLC as default even for Mp4 filesīut by default, VLC will not play your MP4 files even after you have manually set VLC as your default media player.
Similarly click Music player and set VLC as default. 
Choose VLC media player from the given list after clicking video player,
A window called “Choose an App” will be displayed. On the other side, under Choose default apps, select “Music” given for Music player and “Video” for Video player. Click on Default apps from the left hand side menu of System. Under Settings, click on System (subheading: Display, notifications, apps, power).
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