changing default "movie player?"

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 21:14 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: 
> On 03/07/10 21:05, Rikke D. Giles wrote:
> > On 07/03/2010 05:58:17 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >    
> >>      Where is the default movie player set?
> >>      
> >
> > In gnome it's on the multimedia tab under system ->  preferences ->
> > preferred applications.  No idea where it is with KDE.
> >
> > Rikke
> >    
> 
>     I changed it there to no avail. I still have to save clips to play
>     them with VLC which works without a fuss. I don't need it often but
>     when I do I don't want to jump through hoops ... I normally use XFCE
>     but switched back to Gnome to make that change. It hasn't worked.
> 
>     I am running F-13 if that makes a difference.
> 
>     Bob
> 
> 
> 

Another approach click on a movie file in a Nautilus window. Right click
on it and choose properties. Use thew "Open with" option to set the
association. 
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