Change default app. -

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 02:12:21PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 09/27/2012 05:37 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> >    How do I change the default application for playing a video file
> >    received from an iPhone [.mov]?
> >
> >    Presently I have to save it and play with vlc which works perfectly.
> >    Something called "Parole" is all that is offered and I have never
> >    succeeded in playing anything using it, considering just removing
> >    it. Google describes methods for setting the default but they don't
> >    seem applicable to XFCE and F-17/64. 
> 
> If you start the file manager, "Thunar", and then right click on the
> X.mov file pick "Open with" and then "Open with other Application" you
> should be able to choose vlc and that choice should stick for all .mov
> files.
> 

Another desktop agnostic way might be:

$ xdg-mime default vlc.desktop `xdg-mime query filetype /path/to/file.mov`

To get parole to work, I believe you need the gstreamer packages
installed.  This is from my laptop:

gstreamer-0.10.36-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-2.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-8.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-8.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree-0.10.22-3.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-2.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-4.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-1.fc17.x86_64

GL

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