Setting default program to open videos

So I like to use VLC for videos but whenever I open a video (.avi) it opens in quicktime (and with the videos that I have quicktime doesn't work) so I have to right click and open with VLC. I couldn't figure out how to make VLC the default player for all videos. Could someone please tell me how to do this? Thanks in advance.

Might want to try Try Flip4Mac. It plays avi and many other codecs through Quicktime.
If you want to continue to use VLC as your default media player, Choose any avi file and "Get Info" (command-i) and under "Open With" choose VLC player, "Use this application to open all files like this". Then click on "Change All".
-mj

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