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Media Button on Keyboard opens WMP instead of VLC

M1NTY
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So I set the G8 key on my Logitech keyboard to "Open media player". This should open my default media player, VLC. Instead, it opens WMP. I found this strange since WMP isn't set as default for anything, including .cda files, which supposedly control this function. This isn't a serious problem, but is still a annoyance.

 

Thank you, and have a nice day!

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8 minutes ago, M1NTY said:

So I set the G8 key on my Logitech keyboard to "Open media player". This should open my default media player, VLC. Instead, it opens WMP. I found this strange since WMP isn't set as default for anything, including .cda files, which supposedly control this function. This isn't a serious problem, but is still a annoyance.

 

Thank you, and have a nice day!

By default, I believe open media player is set to launch WMP. This has been the case for some time now. Can you manually set your gkey to launch a specific application and point it to vlc?

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You should be able to remap this to launch application and then it will launch whatever you want.

 

Either way you shouldnt be using VLC but MPC-HC and I just happened to have updated the files for my thread on that 

 

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On 3/13/2017 at 8:09 PM, Scruffy90 said:

By default, I believe open media player is set to launch WMP. This has been the case for some time now. Can you manually set your gkey to launch a specific application and point it to vlc?

 

No, I'm afraid not. When mapping keys, I can choose to "Open media player" but there is no option to actually choose what program it opens.

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25 minutes ago, M1NTY said:

No, I'm afraid not. When mapping keys, I can choose to "Open media player" but there is no option to actually choose what program it opens.

choose launch application instead of open media player

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