Saturday, July 30, 2011

Removing Quicktime player on Mac OS X Lion. VLC player is the daddy!

I recently downloaded Mac OS X Lion and as usual I tried to delete QuickTime Player so I could play all my media files on VLC Player. In Leopard,etc it was easy- just go to Applications and delete the QuickTime Player and empty the Trash. VLC then became the next best choice. Nice!
In Lion, however, I couldnt delete the QuickTime Player application and I got an error 'QuickTime Player cant be modified or deleted because it's required by Mac OS X'. Here is the workaround: Right click on any of the media files you want to play. Click on 'Get Info' Then click 'Open with', pick VLC Player. Then click 'Change All'
All set now. You can double click to play your files and not have to right click and then pick VLC. Enjoy!

1 comment:

no-1 said...

No man. You're seriously missing out if you're not using Movist. It has much better controls.