Start DVD with VLC when double click dvd drive

If you can not set VLC to default, you can make edit to registry to start VLC when clicking on DVD drive.

Open registry:

"regedit"

-navigate to <HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\DVD\shell\play\command>

you will probably see the <(Default)> is set to “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe” /prefetch:4 /device:DVD “%L”

-look at <HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\DVD\shell\PlayWithVLC\command>
you will see that <(Default)> is set to “C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe” –started-from-file dvd://%1

if you copy the “C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe” –started-from-file dvd://%1 to the <HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\DVD\shell\play\command> then go to the dvd drive and double click on it. you will see that VLC will start the DVD