How to disable QuickTime movies opening webpages Some QuickTime movies contain embedded "HREF tracks" that will open a webpage in a browser window during the movie (or at the beginning or end). This is highly annoying, not to mention a possible security risk. I looked far and wide, but I couldn't find a way to stop QuickTime from opening website links embedded in movies it plays.
The fix is to set movies to open in the excellent VLC media player instead of in Quicktime. VLC will play the movie properly, but ignore any links inside of it. On a Mac you can do this by doing "Get Info" on a movie file and changing the "Open With" selection box to be VLC. Then click the "Change All..." button below it.
5 comments VLC is the best media player out there. It's Free and Open Source, it plays almost all media types out of the box (with the exception of Real Media formats), it works cross platform, and most importantly it just works. One of the first things I do on a windows intall is make sure that VLC is up and running.
I also find that VLC uses much less system overhead than Windows Media Player. I often find that videos that are choppy in WMP, look great in VLC. Because it's FOSS it's not constantly trying to get you to go it's website to upgrade, that's a big plus in my books. | | |
| Another big vote for VLC from me as well. It's used as our reference player at work, too. | | |
| Or, you could just stop downloading porn movies from limewire | | |
Seriously, there's no way to stop Quicktime from opening web pages? This is a Microsoft-type fuckup that I'm surprised to see in a primarily Mac program. I'm amazed there's no way to disable it :-(
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