Opening videos in the default video player

[ImSreyas]

How can i open videos in the default video player, when i press enter on a video file?
my default video player is vlc.
previously the videos are opened in the mpv player. (I don't want this behaviour), now i have removed the mpv package.
now the videos are not opening!

The expected behaviour is to open the video or selected videos in vlc media player when i click enter.

i have checked the default video player for both mp4 and mkv files like below :
(I don't know this is the correct way of doing so)

xdg-mime query default video/mp4

xdg-mime query default video/mp4

and both of them outputed:
vlc.desktop

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distro : fedora 40
wm : gnome
terminal : kitty
shell : fish

[xfzv]

If you haven't modified default yazi.toml, it's probably still trying to launch mpv:

https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/blob/main/yazi-config/preset/yazi.toml#L51-L52

play = [
    { run = 'mpv --force-window "$@"', orphan = true, for = "unix" },
]

Just use this instead:

play = [
    { run = 'vlc "$@"', desc = "VLC", orphan = true }
]

and ensure that you're using play for videos:

[open]
rules = [
  { mime = "video/*", use = [ "play", "reveal" ] },
]

[ImSreyas]

Thanks....❤️
Now it works.