Windows 10: Windows 11 will not play embedded videos in VlC media player

I keep getting a message to change my media player for best results to "VLC MEDIA PLAYER" it them tells me to change on settings to make default using VLC media player plugin. I've tried everything I can think of to find "said" plugin with no results. Can someone help me please?

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video file not playing in windows media player (windows10)

while playing video file in windows media player , black page appearing with only audio . while same file is playing nicely in VLC media . any suggestion to rectify the problem.

 

using VLC Media Player

I had an old laptop with an upgrade to Windows 10 installed, had VLC Media Player installed, worked fine, have updated laptop, came with Windows 10, have downloaded VLC Media Player and when I try to play video, the screen turns green, plays audio but
no video, just won't play on this laptop,????

 

Second odd Vlc Media Player Question?


First of all I know there's a way to change program icons such as firefox all you do is right click shortcut change icon. Simple.

I would guess its the same way for vlc media player. But here's the odd question part.

Is it possible to have 1 program with 2 different icons.

For example if I use vlc to play .mp3 files and have a cute headphones icon and want the media player to have the headphones icon while playing .mp3 files and then have a different icon for the vlc media player for playing video in .mp4 and .flv files. So all audio file will have the headphones icon for the player itself not the file type icons same for video file types like .mp4 and .flv.

Like I said its a odd question.

For example if I used vlc for the audio .mp3 files and used the headphones icon that would be fine but then I would need a different player for the videos then I could use my video icon. For the player.

If you have windows 10 and are playing vlc media player there would be a orange cone on the bottom with a line under it. I would like to know if I can switch the orange icon to a set of headphones for playing 1 file type and have it show a different kind of icon for videos.

Like I previously stated its a odd question. hope someone can help me with it though. Plus if I can't do this with just the vlc media player please suggest a second free player.