How to set up VLC media player as your default player.

I took the following steps by: * Using the "open with" method and browsing and selecting vlc on the browse section but it still wont show up on the interface menu or be selected as my default player * I also tryed selecting it from "default program" but VLC is still not showing up * finally I tryed to do it manually by going to VLC and selecting preferences and clicking all the media...