On the Default apps settings page, scroll down and then click the VLC media player entry. Select the Default apps tab on the right sidebar of Apps.

When Settings opens, select the Apps category from the left sidebar. After installing VLC media player on your Windows 11 PC, simply open the Windows Settings app by pressing Windows + I keys from the keyboard. More specific, you have to manually set VLC as the default media player on Windows 11 for different video/audio formats one by one.

Windows 11 brings a lot changes and the Settings has also changed, which means setting default apps is a bit different than Windows 10.

Click on the Install button to install VLC Windows 11 version on your PC. On your Windows 11 computer, simply open the Microsoft Store from the taskbar. Win32 version of VLC media player is now available in the Microsoft Store app on Windows 11, so it is very easy for you to get the brand new VLC media player for Windows 11 PC. For apps that are now Universal, you need to indicate under requirements that they are universal, because there are users that may want to run native-ARM apps, if available (and if you own an ARM mac, why wouldn't you want to run native apps if available?). Maybe that means separate MU pages for each platform in the case of VLC, or you need to host both versions and offer the user a choice which file when downloading. So come up with a system to handle this new world we live in, every day that goes by it only will get more confusing. VLC is the first app I've seen that comes as separate installers, but logical to think more will come, for whatever reason a Universal app is not available (technical reasons, licensing, size of the executable, who knows). There a many Universal apps now, but if you look at the MAc Update page for them, there is no indication that they are Universal and requirements still say Intel-64. As I've been telling MU for several months you need to come up with a system/policy for how to document and catalog Universal and/or ARM only apps. The download you are hosting currently as of this date is the ARM version. VLC is now available in separate Intel and ARM (Apple Silicon) versions, with DIFFERENT versioning schemes.

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