Use your mouse or touchpad to move your cursor on the file, and right-click on it to expand a drop-down menu of options. Step 1 First of all, find the kind of file you want VLC to be the default player for and right click on it. Under 'Open With', select VLC from the drop-down menu.
Change to VLC and use the 'Change all' You need to repeat that for all movie files that have different extension. At that time a list will appear with some possible programs that we can set as default here from the ones we have installed on the PC. All of the video files have been set to VLC now. In Fedora 10 the path /usr/share/applications/ will take you to these 2 files that configure what application opens a type of file. Moreover it has some video editing features like trimming video, converting videos etc.