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Quicktime stealing mpg association
Name: Martyn999 Date: June 22, 2006 at 04:11:40 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro SP1 CPU/Ram: Athlon64 3500+ / 1GB
Comment:
Ever since I installed quicktime (which I need for iTunes and other programs), it has become the default association for viewing mpg/mpeg files on webpages as an embedded player. Before I had quicktime Windows Media Player used to handle it, which I prefer. Is there any way to stop Quicktime from being the default player? I turned off all the options in Quicktime itself for both file types and MIME associations. The problem only exists in webpages though, double clicking an mpg/mpeg file in Windows Explorer still opens with WMP.
There are no options anywhere that I can see which causes Quicktime to take over.
Name: dj3642 Date: June 22, 2006 at 05:05:31 Pacific
Reply:
did yo go into media player and under tools / options and file type. make sure that MPG is checked in there?? or any of the other files you want media player to play.
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Response Number 2
Name: Martyn999 Date: June 22, 2006 at 05:11:07 Pacific
Reply:
Yep thats set up the way it should be.
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Response Number 3
Name: dj3642 Date: June 22, 2006 at 10:35:29 Pacific
Reply:
the only other thing i can think of is to open up explorer and go to .. er.. i think its tools / folder options and then file types. if you scroll down to where it shows MPG and MPEG you can open those up and maybe edit. maybe for some reason quicktime is still listed in there. there may be some sort of double option in there that is causing quick time to pick it up at times.
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Response Number 4
Name: Martyn999 Date: June 22, 2006 at 15:19:16 Pacific
Reply:
Nope, Quicktime is only set up to handle its own files, none of the mpg/mpeg/mpe etc files.
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