stupid question about playing avi movie

[sini]

I have Power Machintosh G5 and I tried to download a movie from Lime Wire. It is avi movie and when I trie to open it from lime wire, it opens from quick time player and can't play it. I tried to open it from vlc, but I don't know how.. Can somebody help me?

[fkuehne]

What about launching VLC with a double click, going to File -> "Quick File Open...", selecting your file and watching it?

(sorry for the irony)

[Christian]

What you do is this:

Select the AVI file on your desktop

Press command-i to get the info about the file

Change the default application for AVI-files to VLC and choose to do this for all files of the same kind

From now on, all AVIs will open with VLC just by being double-clicked

(They will also appear graphically with the VLC rather than the Quicktime icon on yout desktop)