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16 Février 2021
There are a lot of strong arguments in favor of macOS, it is beautiful, robust, well designed, and just works. While it is true, I hate the fact that the default Media Player on macOS is a Quick Time Player. I wanted to use VLC as my default media player for all the video files on my mac. That said, let's set VLC as the default app.
Support for NPAPI plugins was removed from all modern web browsers, so VLC's plugin is no longer maintained. The last version is 3.0.4 and can be found here. It will not receive any further updates. Older versions of Mac OS X and VLC media player. We provide older releases for users who wish to deploy our software on legacy releases of Mac OS X. VLC Media Player is an Open Source Multimedia Player licensed with GPL that allows you to view videos and listen to audios in practically any format. VLC Media Player can play any video or audio format, including MPEG, WMV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, H.264/AVC, FLV, MP3 and OGG, along with many others. Needed to play an MKV on my Samsung 65' TV. VLC & one other player I already had played it fine but I felt the quality lacked when cast to the big screen. Streaming through MKPLayer was surprisngly visually smoother and clearer than the other apps and the simple, two clicks to get it there is exactly what a modern Mac app experience should be.
I use VLC simply because it is more intuitive than Quick Time Player, supports file types such as MKV, and gives you total control of the video playback from the keyboard.
There is an option built into the macOS that lets you set any application as a default. To set VLC as default for a video file, Right-click the file> Click ‘Get Info'.
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Under the ‘Open With‘ section, select VLC from the drop-down menu. Click the ‘Change All' button. That's all you need to do, the video file would open with VLC every time you double click it or press CMD+DOWN.
However, the problem with this method is that you would have to repeat the process of setting VLC as a default app for every video file type. If you want a set it and forget it type fix then let's check out the next method.
To set VLC as a default app for every video file type, we'd install a small utility app, Swift Default Apps. It's a preference pane app that would let us set any app as default. Download the app from the Github page and install it on your system.
Once installed, you will find this app in System Preferences, Click SwiftDefaultApps icon.
Select Applications from the row of tabs, scroll down to find VLC and check all the media files that you want VLC to play. Now, simply close the System Preferences and that's it. Mousekeys for mac. All of the video files have been set to VLC now.
Read: How to Play MKV Files on Mac
These were two simple ways to set VLC as your default media player. I don't mind using the first method but I consume a lot of video content and setting every format to play with VLC isn't something I'd want to do. SwiftDefaultApps can do so much more than just setting VLC as the default app. What do you think of these methods, let me know in the comments below or reach out to me on Twitter?
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With new VLC versions (VLC 1.1.0 and above), the thumbnails are generated with scene video filter
If you want to get rid of the sound you can add '--aout=dummy' next to '--vout=dummy'.
For older VLC versions (1.0.0 and below) the same can be done with image output module
When VLC media player runs it 'plays' the video for one second without actually showing the video on screen, and then quits, leaving us with a file named 'snap000000.jpg', containing an image of the first frame of the video.
First select the image output with: -V image or --vout image.
Next set the interval (in seconds) you want an image from with: --start-time 0 --stop-time 1In my example the first second of the video. In that case you could omit the parameter --start-time. If you want an image from the 5th second fill in: --start-time 5 --stop-time 6
The image format will be .jpg because i provided: --image-out-format jpg. You could specify --image-out-format png to get a .png-image instead.
--image-out-ratio 24 specifies we want one image out of 24. In my case the video contains 24 images per second so this is the right value. If your video has more images per seconds you should increase this value to prevend you get more images as one. If the number is too high (for example 500) it still produces only one image, so the actual value is not so important as long as it is higher then the images per second.
--image-out-prefix snap specifies the filename must start with 'snap'. You can prefix with a path, for example c:snap and resulting images will be created there.
You can specify --image-out-replace. In that case Vlc produces the file 'snap.jpg'. This will prevent VLC from creating multiple images.
Preview zip files mac. test.mpg specifies the video to play and finally vlc://quit forces vlc to quit when ready.
Although VLC does not provide an option for creating a contact sheet, one possible solution is to use the ImageMagick 'montage' tool. Taking the images generated by VLC, run the following command:
For more on the tool you can check the associated montage help page.
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