If you do find out any additional information, please do add that in a reply. Sorry this article didn’t help you solve your problem. I followed this video, put a DVD in my drive, double clicked on DVD and it still opened in WMP. Nope, this way in the video doesn’t work.
Watch this video to learn How To Make VLC Default Media Player … Sunday, 26 February 2012 at 12:57 | Reply Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 03:37 | ReplyĪ little more elegant, perhaps, is to change “(Default)” in ‘shell’ to “PlayWithVLC” Works perfect! Double-clicking the DVD drive icon now launches the DVD in VLC. You sir are a god among geeks! I have been looking for this answer for quite a while. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.Ģ0 Responses to “How to Set VLC as the Default DVD Player (Windows 7)” You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Friday, 23 September 2011 at 23:24 and is filed under Config, Free Software, Windows.
(That’s for a 64-bit Windows 7 system you may need to adjust that for 32-bit systems, or other editions of Windows.)ĭouble click on the file’s icon to import the values into the registry.įor reference, my search revealed the following suggested partial solutions Copy the following into a file called, say, : Windows Registry Editor Version Files (x86)\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe\" -started-from-file dvd://%1" This can alternatively be achieved via a registry import.
On the Windows Media Center start screen, scroll to Tasks, select Settings, select General, select Windows Media Center Setup, and then select Set Up TV Signal.Using a Media Center remote, press the green Start button.Windows Media Center also takes advantage of HomeGroup in Windows 7 and allows you to access digital media content from other PCs! Windows Media Center brings in all your digital media– photos, movies, music, and recorded TV shows – into one place. Tap or click Pin to Taskbar if you want to put a WMP icon on your desktop taskbar. Tap or click Pin to Start if you want a tile for WMP to appear on the Metro Start screen. Tap and hold or right-click the Windows Media Player link in the upper-right corner. A better option lies in free, third-party programs. … Microsoft offers a Windows DVD Player app, but it costs $15 and has generated a number of poor reviews.
Unfortunately, if you pop a DVD into your Windows 10 computer, you may bump into trouble because Windows 10 Media Player doesn’t support regular DVDs. To do this: Select the Start button, and then type system restore. If Windows Media Player stopped working correctly after the latest updates from Windows Update, you can verify that the updates are the problem by using System Restore. The latter instead uses Groove Music (for audio) and Microsoft Movies & TV (for video) as the default playback applications for most media As of May 2020, Windows Media Player is still included as a Windows component. Note If the Help menu is not displayed, press ALT + H on your keyboard and then click About Windows Media Player. To determine the version of Windows Media Player, start Windows Media Player, click About Windows Media Player on the Help menu in and then note the version number below the Copyright notice.