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How can I remove QuickTime as the default player for videos?

How can I turn off Quicktime as the default player for video clips? I click on the video (AppleTV is the default) I tell it to open with VLC (which is the default for all other programs), it still opens with AppleTV. And Apple TV will NOT show the subtitles in the opera video clips???


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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 14.6

Posted on Sep 8, 2024 7:00 AM

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Posted on Sep 8, 2024 7:31 AM

Select a movie in Finder (movie.m4v, for example) > File > Get Info > Open with > select the desired application (I'd recommend IINA instead VLC) > Change All...

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Sep 8, 2024 3:19 PM in response to anne235

THANK YOU Matti -- yes, I have tried that...and it does indeed open with VLC if I open it immediately. But my basic problem is that when I insert that same video (with the previous instructions to ALWAYS use VLC to open, and VLC IS already the default for all other videos) into a Keynote slide and press play, the subtitles do not appear...so I am assuming that Keynote was forcing Quicktime to play it? It ONLY does this with the latest 14.1 version of Keynote, it has worked fine in older versions of Keynote. And of course I cannot find a way to download an older version of Keynote to solve my problem...and all older versions of Keynote were upgraded on all my laptops because it is in the Cloud 😱 Somewhere I read that Quicktime is the default for Keynote..? BTW, I tried converting the video to .MOV -- did not fix it. ANY other suggestions you might have will be gratefully received 😊




Sep 8, 2024 11:28 PM in response to anne235

anne235 wrote:

when I insert that same video (with the previous instructions to ALWAYS use VLC to open, and VLC IS already the default for all other videos) into a Keynote slide and press play, the subtitles do not appear...so I am assuming that Keynote was forcing Quicktime to play it?

Oh, so you use Keynote that might use its own framework to play embedded movies.


If you do not mind re-encoding movies and the slight quality loss and time and hassle it requires, you might want to "burn" the subtitles permanently to the movies pixel data. I don't right now have access to my drone movies with .srt subtitles to try this, but here is some info how to do that with VLC:


https://gotranscript.com/blog/how-to-hardcode-subtitles-with-vlc-media-player

How can I remove QuickTime as the default player for videos?

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