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.
Select the Interface page (if not already selected).(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. Copy the latter value into the former entry.Note that is set to “C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe” –started-from-file dvd://%1.
Note that is set to “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe” /prefetch:4 /device:DVD “%L”.
Open regedit: enter “regedit” into the search box on the Start button’s pop-up dialog.However, I was still finding that Windows Media Player would always start when I double-clicked the DVD drive icon.Įventually, I decided to have a bit of a dig around in the system. Having spent some time searching the web for an answer to this question, I found the same partial information repeated many times.