9/7/2019 Make Quicktime Default Player Mac
Jul 20, 2014 QuickTime Player, the video player and editing tool bundled with the Mac for ages, received a fairly major overhaul when it turned into QuickTime Player X. While it became free and lost the need to upgrade to a Pro version, it also lost out on a lot of really nice professional features that QuickTime Player 7 had.
Each document that you have on your Mac is associated with a default application which macOS uses to open the file whenever you double-click on its icon in Finder. Sometimes you may have a legitimate reason for changing which app your Mac automatically launches when you open a common file type – when a newly installed app assumes control of it, or when you want to open AVI video files in VLC instead of QuickTime, for instance. The following steps show you how to do just that. In a Finder window, right-click (or Ctrl-click) the file whose default launch app you want to change. From the contextual menu, select Open With - Other.
A new navigation window will appear for you to select an alternative app to open the selected file. In our example, we're selecting the VLC media player app.
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Tick the checkbox next to Always Open With to ensure your selection applies in future to all files with the same extension (AVI files, in our case). If you don't see the checkbox, click the Options button at the lower left of the window and it should appear. Click Open.If the app that you want to use to open the file type is greyed out, it's because macOS doesn't think there's a valid association between the two. In most cases this is correct, but you can still override it by changing the Recommended Applications view to All Applications using the Enable: dropdown menu.
There's another way you can change a file type's associated app in macOS: Right-click (or Ctrl-click) on the file in a Finder window and select Get Info. In the information dialog that appears, you should see the Open with: section immediately below the Comments: section (click the chevron buttons to expand individual sections). Select Other.
In the drop-down menu of apps to select one not already in the list, and then click Change All. To apply the association to all files with the same extension.
Changing the Default Application for File Types in OS X It’s really easy to change the default application a type of file opens in. Just click on one of the files and choose File Get Info from the main menu or use the Cmd+I keyboard shortcut. You can also right-click, Ctrl-click, or two-finger clicking the file and select “Get Info”. Once that dialog shows up, you can head down the “Open With” section, change it to the application you’d prefer, and then click “Change All”. You should see a prompt verifying you really want to do it, where you’d click “Continue”. That’s pretty much all there is to it. Changing a Specific File to Open in a Different Application If you just want to change that one file, you can bring up the context menu by right-clicking, Control-clicking, or two-finger clicking the file.
Choose Open With – Other. Select the application you want to change it to, and then click the “Always Open With” box. Click “Open” and that individual file will always open with the application you chose in the future. Note: If you’re trying to play a file off a read-only network share, you won’t be able to do this. You’ll have to copy a file to your Mac’s local storage to make the change, or otherwise you’ll get this error message: And there you go, now you can open your video files in VLC instead of QuickTime.
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