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re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types'
Wednesday, April 3, 2002 at 6:15 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Xavier Theoret
(10 messages posted)
You are right. IE6 does consider a .mpg as a .mpeg. (I saved one of my file on the
desktop to try it). And you are right too about different software for *.mpg and
*.mpeg. But it didn't solved my problem... mpg was handled by mplayer2.exe while
mpeg was playable through wmplayer... and not quicktime! (according to Windows file
type anyway). So why Quicktime!?
What solved my problem (sorry for not posting it here sooner) is this... IE6 is using
a "Mime" format to know which application runs what. This MIME format is system-independant.
After fiddling around, I discovered that one quicktime parameter (control panel->Quicktime->Browser
Plug in ->Mime setting) is actually overriding default windows settings to read mpeg
files! It took me time to find this. You would expect to find this option in "control
panel->Quicktime->File Type Associations" but it is not!
Unchecking "mpeg" in Quicktime's browser plugin/Mime settings did the job and now
normal association resume working. And I now set the older mplayer2 as my player
for both mpg and mpeg.
Hope this answer helps other out there. Thanks for replying.
Xavier
http://go.to/timelapse
>Check your default for *.mpeg files as well
>as *.mpg files. You will probably find them
>to be different. I was able to copy your
>biscuits.mpg to biscuits.mpeg and have one
>open with the Media Player and the other
>open with QuickTime. Your server is sending
>"video/mpeg" so IE is using mpeg for the http access.
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