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making VLC the default for playing DVDs
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in
the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. Thank you! Jo-Anne |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. Not a hardware question. This is a software configuration issue or, at best, an issue with filetype associations in the operating system. VideoLan's forums are over at http://forum.videolan.org/. Right-click on the .vob file (or whatever you open to play the movie), select Open With, and browse to the VLC program's executable. Make sure you enable the Remember option in the browse dialog. Or you could set the file associations within VLC Player. Alas, for some reason, its designers decided that not all the simple options will be present in the advanced options. To set file associations in VLC's preferences, use the simple interface for its Preferences dialog. Then look under the Interface category of options. Enable the extension for whatever is the video file you are trying to open in VLC. |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. From my limited understanding, it seems that it's not possible. For some reason, VLC does not register itself as a DVD playing application. You can set it to play specific file types, but not devices. To see which programs will play DVDs upon insertion, right-click on the DVD drive, and in the AutoPlay tab you can see and set them. I personally see nothing wrong with the default PowerDVD for that purpose, and haven't changed it (but then, I don't usually play DVDs). For example, Media Player Classic registers as a DVD playing application - see if you'll like it instead. -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. |
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Jo-Anne wrote: I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. Thank you! Jo-Anne I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There is a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it can do is to run a program when it detects a given device. "USB Safely Remove" is handy for much more than this too, so it is worth looking into even if you can't get this to work for this purpose. http://safelyremove.com/ -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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"VanguardLH" wrote in message
... Jo-Anne wrote: I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. Not a hardware question. This is a software configuration issue or, at best, an issue with filetype associations in the operating system. VideoLan's forums are over at http://forum.videolan.org/. Right-click on the .vob file (or whatever you open to play the movie), select Open With, and browse to the VLC program's executable. Make sure you enable the Remember option in the browse dialog. Or you could set the file associations within VLC Player. Alas, for some reason, its designers decided that not all the simple options will be present in the advanced options. To set file associations in VLC's preferences, use the simple interface for its Preferences dialog. Then look under the Interface category of options. Enable the extension for whatever is the video file you are trying to open in VLC. Thank you, Vanguard! I did look at the interface categories in VLC, and all the options are checked--but still PowerDVD opens the files. I wonder if PowerDVD can be uninstalled... Jo-Anne |
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... Jo-Anne wrote: I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. From my limited understanding, it seems that it's not possible. For some reason, VLC does not register itself as a DVD playing application. You can set it to play specific file types, but not devices. To see which programs will play DVDs upon insertion, right-click on the DVD drive, and in the AutoPlay tab you can see and set them. I personally see nothing wrong with the default PowerDVD for that purpose, and haven't changed it (but then, I don't usually play DVDs). For example, Media Player Classic registers as a DVD playing application - see if you'll like it instead. -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. Thank you, Patok! I've had trouble with PowerDVD from the first time I tried playing DVDs. In one case, a DVD that was set up for the United States (where I live) wouldn't play until I "changed" the area to the United States. In another case, the sound wouldn't play at all. I had no problem with the sound on that DVD in VLC. Jo-Anne |
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"BillW50" wrote in message
... In , Jo-Anne wrote: I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. Thank you! Jo-Anne I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There is a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it can do is to run a program when it detects a given device. "USB Safely Remove" is handy for much more than this too, so it is worth looking into even if you can't get this to work for this purpose. http://safelyremove.com/ -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 Thank you, Bill! I had already bookmarked USB Safely Remove (I think from one of your earlier posts). I'll definitely check it out for this issue--although I wonder how it reacts if the media in the DVD player is simply a data CD/DVD. Jo-Anne |
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Jo-Anne wrote: Thank you, Vanguard! I did look at the interface categories in VLC, and all the options are checked--but still PowerDVD opens the files. I wonder if PowerDVD can be uninstalled... Jo-Anne All versions of PowerDVD that I know of, can be uninstalled. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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Jo-Anne wrote: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Jo-Anne wrote: I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. Thank you! Jo-Anne I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There is a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it can do is to run a program when it detects a given device. "USB Safely Remove" is handy for much more than this too, so it is worth looking into even if you can't get this to work for this purpose. http://safelyremove.com/ Thank you, Bill! I had already bookmarked USB Safely Remove (I think from one of your earlier posts). I'll definitely check it out for this issue--although I wonder how it reacts if the media in the DVD player is simply a data CD/DVD. Jo-Anne Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file manager) under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab called File Types? Here the third one down is called DVD Video. Select this one and press the Advanced button. It should list something like this: Play Play with PowerDVD (in bold) Play with VLC media player Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one should be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC instead of PowerDVD. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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"BillW50" wrote in message
... In , Jo-Anne wrote: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Jo-Anne wrote: I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. Thank you! Jo-Anne I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There is a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it can do is to run a program when it detects a given device. "USB Safely Remove" is handy for much more than this too, so it is worth looking into even if you can't get this to work for this purpose. http://safelyremove.com/ Thank you, Bill! I had already bookmarked USB Safely Remove (I think from one of your earlier posts). I'll definitely check it out for this issue--although I wonder how it reacts if the media in the DVD player is simply a data CD/DVD. Jo-Anne Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file manager) under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab called File Types? Here the third one down is called DVD Video. Select this one and press the Advanced button. It should list something like this: Play Play with PowerDVD (in bold) Play with VLC media player Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one should be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC instead of PowerDVD. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 Hi, Bill, I set VLC as the default, but PowerDVD still came up. I restarted the computer; PowerDVD still came up. I deleted PowerDVD from the "list." It no longer comes up--but VLC doesn't either. I have to open VLC, click on Open Disc, and click Open. This is all on a DVD I had run earlier. So I tried a new DVD, and it makes a strange sound spinning, doesn't stop spinning, and VLC isn' working at all with it. I inserted one of the DVDs I had run before, and it works OK--although I still have to open VLC and manually start it. From what I can see, this SHOULD have worked. I can't understand why it hasn't--and I don't know what to do about the DVD that won't run at all. Thank you for the suggestion, though! Jo-Anne |
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"Jo-Anne" wrote in message
... "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Jo-Anne wrote: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Jo-Anne wrote: I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. Thank you! Jo-Anne I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There is a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it can do is to run a program when it detects a given device. "USB Safely Remove" is handy for much more than this too, so it is worth looking into even if you can't get this to work for this purpose. http://safelyremove.com/ Thank you, Bill! I had already bookmarked USB Safely Remove (I think from one of your earlier posts). I'll definitely check it out for this issue--although I wonder how it reacts if the media in the DVD player is simply a data CD/DVD. Jo-Anne Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file manager) under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab called File Types? Here the third one down is called DVD Video. Select this one and press the Advanced button. It should list something like this: Play Play with PowerDVD (in bold) Play with VLC media player Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one should be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC instead of PowerDVD. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 Hi, Bill, I set VLC as the default, but PowerDVD still came up. I restarted the computer; PowerDVD still came up. I deleted PowerDVD from the "list." It no longer comes up--but VLC doesn't either. I have to open VLC, click on Open Disc, and click Open. This is all on a DVD I had run earlier. So I tried a new DVD, and it makes a strange sound spinning, doesn't stop spinning, and VLC isn' working at all with it. I inserted one of the DVDs I had run before, and it works OK--although I still have to open VLC and manually start it. From what I can see, this SHOULD have worked. I can't understand why it hasn't--and I don't know what to do about the DVD that won't run at all. Thank you for the suggestion, though! Jo-Anne Addendum: I did finally get the new DVD to play. I don't know what went wrong the first time. So the only issue is having to start VLC rather than having it automatically play the DVDs. Jo-Anne |
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Jo-Anne wrote:
"Jo-Anne" wrote in message "BillW50" wrote in message Jo-Anne Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file manager) under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab called File Types? Here the third one down is called DVD Video. Select this one and press the Advanced button. It should list something like this: Play Play with PowerDVD (in bold) Play with VLC media player Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one should be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC instead of PowerDVD. I set VLC as the default, but PowerDVD still came up. I restarted the computer; PowerDVD still came up. I deleted PowerDVD from the "list." It no longer comes up--but VLC doesn't either. I have to open VLC, click on Open Disc, and click Open. This is all on a DVD I had run earlier. So I tried a new DVD, and it makes a strange sound spinning, doesn't stop spinning, and VLC isn' working at all with it. I inserted one of the DVDs I had run before, and it works OK--although I still have to open VLC and manually start it. From what I can see, this SHOULD have worked. I can't understand why it hasn't--and I don't know what to do about the DVD that won't run at all. Addendum: I did finally get the new DVD to play. I don't know what went wrong the first time. So the only issue is having to start VLC rather than having it automatically play the DVDs. Duh. As I wrote before, the only application that will play DVDs upon inserting them, is the one listed in the AutoPlay tab of your DVD drive, under DVD movie. (You never said what applications you see there.) The entry you've been setting in Folder Options, following Bill's advice, is for right-clicking an already inserted and identified DVD disk, it is *not* for automatically playing it. -- You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone. * Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn. |
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Jo-Anne wrote: "Jo-Anne" wrote in message ... "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Jo-Anne wrote: "BillW50" wrote in message ... In , Jo-Anne wrote: I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website that explains it. Thank you! Jo-Anne I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There is a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it can do is to run a program when it detects a given device. "USB Safely Remove" is handy for much more than this too, so it is worth looking into even if you can't get this to work for this purpose. http://safelyremove.com/ Thank you, Bill! I had already bookmarked USB Safely Remove (I think from one of your earlier posts). I'll definitely check it out for this issue--although I wonder how it reacts if the media in the DVD player is simply a data CD/DVD. Jo-Anne Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file manager) under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab called File Types? Here the third one down is called DVD Video. Select this one and press the Advanced button. It should list something like this: Play Play with PowerDVD (in bold) Play with VLC media player Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one should be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC instead of PowerDVD. Hi, Bill, I set VLC as the default, but PowerDVD still came up. I restarted the computer; PowerDVD still came up. I deleted PowerDVD from the "list." It no longer comes up--but VLC doesn't either. I have to open VLC, click on Open Disc, and click Open. This is all on a DVD I had run earlier. So I tried a new DVD, and it makes a strange sound spinning, doesn't stop spinning, and VLC isn' working at all with it. I inserted one of the DVDs I had run before, and it works OK--although I still have to open VLC and manually start it. From what I can see, this SHOULD have worked. I can't understand why it hasn't--and I don't know what to do about the DVD that won't run at all. Thank you for the suggestion, though! Jo-Anne Addendum: I did finally get the new DVD to play. I don't know what went wrong the first time. So the only issue is having to start VLC rather than having it automatically play the DVDs. Jo-Anne Try this, Win+R and paste in this line (including quotes): "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file dvd://d: The last part "d:" change to whatever your drive letter is for your DVD drive. In this example it is drive D. And that should start VLC and play the DVD. If that works and it should if your path for VLC is the same, let me know and we will go on from there. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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Patok wrote: Duh. As I wrote before, the only application that will play DVDs upon inserting them, is the one listed in the AutoPlay tab of your DVD drive, under DVD movie. (You never said what applications you see there.) The entry you've been setting in Folder Options, following Bill's advice, is for right-clicking an already inserted and identified DVD disk, it is *not* for automatically playing it. Thanks Patok for the information. Here is something that should work if you have TweakUI installed. My Computer AutoPlay Handlers Here you can select VLC to autoplay DVD movies. You can do this without TweakUI too. Right click on the DVD drive in Explorer and select properties. AutoPlay tab, DVD Movie (drop down menu), and Select an action to perform. Then select Play DVD movie using VideoLAN VLC media player. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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"BillW50" wrote in message
... In , Patok wrote: Duh. As I wrote before, the only application that will play DVDs upon inserting them, is the one listed in the AutoPlay tab of your DVD drive, under DVD movie. (You never said what applications you see there.) The entry you've been setting in Folder Options, following Bill's advice, is for right-clicking an already inserted and identified DVD disk, it is *not* for automatically playing it. Thanks Patok for the information. Here is something that should work if you have TweakUI installed. My Computer AutoPlay Handlers Here you can select VLC to autoplay DVD movies. You can do this without TweakUI too. Right click on the DVD drive in Explorer and select properties. AutoPlay tab, DVD Movie (drop down menu), and Select an action to perform. Then select Play DVD movie using VideoLAN VLC media player. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 Bingo! That did it, Bill. I do have TweakUI installed, but I didn't see an Autoplay option under My Compuer. So I followed your directions starting with right-clicking on the DVD drive. It worked! Thank you very much! Jo-Anne |
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