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Computer Software => Windows 7 => Topic started by: broadstairs on November 25, 2012, 05:37:20 PM

Title: Help please with default media player in W7
Post by: broadstairs on November 25, 2012, 05:37:20 PM: I still have W7 running on my new laptop and I have VLC installed whch I want to use as my default player. I have set all the associations correctly and set it as default in the control panel. Now the real hassle is that when I open the network and see my MediaTomb server as a network device I want to double click on it and see it open VLC but W7 will only open Windows Media Player. I have been unable to find any way to change this behaviour and it's driving me mad. Any vieo or picture file I click on opens in VLC but stubbornly W7 insist on opening Windows Media Player when I double click on the MediaTomb device on the network.

Can anyone suggest how I resolve this?

Stuart
PS. Yes I could install Linux on the lappy but she who must be obeyed will get upset :no:
Title: Re: Help please with default media player in W7
Post by: burakkucat on November 25, 2012, 06:35:39 PM: Is it possible to remove the BGW Media Player? Then, if it does not exist, it cannot be started! :-\
Title: Re: Help please with default media player in W7
Post by: broadstairs on November 25, 2012, 08:04:05 PM: Quote from: burakkucat on November 25, 2012, 06:35:39 PM
Is it possible to remove the BGW Media Player? Then, if it does not exist, it cannot be started! :-\

I had certainly thought about this but I'd rather try to sort it by a setting if possible. :(

Stuart
Title: Re: Help please with default media player in W7
Post by: kitz on November 26, 2012, 11:42:11 AM: I dont know Im afraid, but does this help give any clues?
http://superuser.com/questions/309490/is-there-a-way-to-browse-a-media-server-mediatomb-with-a-media-player-vlc
Title: Re: Help please with default media player in W7
Post by: broadstairs on November 26, 2012, 12:49:54 PM: Quote from: kitz on November 26, 2012, 11:42:11 AM
I dont know Im afraid, but does this help give any clues?
http://superuser.com/questions/309490/is-there-a-way-to-browse-a-media-server-mediatomb-with-a-media-player-vlc

Thanks Kitz, sadly that does not help. If I open VLC and navigate to the Upnp device running Mediatomb it works fine and plays the videos. What I wanted to do was to be able to open the file browser and select Network which displays a whole load of Network devices including my MediaTomb device and double click on it and have W7 open VLC, sadly whatever I do it opens Windows Media Player which refuses to play the video files for some strange reason (which might be a missing setup in MediaTomb for that file type). However I prefer VLC (being a Linux man at heart).

Stuart
Title: Re: Help please with default media player in W7
Post by: bbnovice on November 26, 2012, 06:39:05 PM: Does this link help?

http://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_make_VLC_the_default_player#Vista.2C_7.2C_8
Title: Re: Help please with default media player in W7
Post by: broadstairs on November 26, 2012, 06:41:06 PM: Quote from: bbnovice on November 26, 2012, 06:39:05 PM
Does this link help?

http://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_make_VLC_the_default_player#Vista.2C_7.2C_8

Sadly no I've been trough all that and if I open a media file directly it opens VLC just fine. It's only when I double click on the Media Server device in the Network that it insists on opening WMP!

Stuart