how to use vlc media player

If you want VLC as your default media player then select it as such. A right click use of media file w/o any setting per se, for media file and when the small menu pops-up, select(Open with) VLC player.

Change any default pgm. under MS, do the following:

http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows-vista/Change-which-programs-Windows-uses-by-default

I suggest as in my initial response click on the file rather than click on VLC and then pick a file. That will work, but until you get used to VLC for fast results, click on file. Though once you change the default media player VLC automatically launches.

tada ------Willy

Just install VLC leaving the default settings as they are.

If you happen to have accidentally installed the browser plug ins - your browser will play videos in VLC instead of flash player. You can simply remove the plug in from your browser(s).

There's a decent user guide that includes playback, streaming video capture and saving videos using VLC. You can visit a site, play a video then grab the stream and save it to your machine for playback. Most users don't even know about this capability.

Here's the step by step guide:

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/step-by-step/1908858/play-music-video-vlc-player