Quicktime to VLC player as default media player?

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to change it so that rather than all my .avi's be associated with Quicktime, they're all played by VLC player. When I used to have a Windows PC, it was fairly easy to go into options and change what program you wanted to open what, but I've only had my Mac for a little over a week, and I don't really know what to do.

I want to change it so that ALL my .avi's will open with VLC player and I don't have to right click -> open with -> VLC each time I want to open a vid.

Or...is there a better alternative to a program that will play everything? So far, with all my .flvs, .avis, and .wmvs, FLC player seems to be the best one I've found. Is there a way to have Quicktime play all of these files?

Thanks in advance!