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re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types'
Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 12:02 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Igor
(1 messages posted)
Dear friends:
The problem described here is real and has nothing to do with QuickTime. Here is
what I have. mpg as well as mpeg files are associated in my Windows with say my DVD
player ( Explorer:Tools:Folder Options:FileTypes).
When I double click on the file icon, it starts in the DVD player. However, in IE,
when I make a link to the file, It starts with Windows Media Player (WMP ). It should
start with DVD player but it does not. See! It looks like IE has special setting
of its own. Regarding you QT. Sometime in past you run a QT setup program for IE.
That program made QT default player for IE. And now it always opened in QT unless
you run WMP installer again. Now, here is my question. Where IE keep this information.
Is there a correct way for unexperienced user to change the setting for IE. It seems
to me IE violates Windows guidelines, but what can I do?
On Wednesday, April 3, 2002 at 6:15 pm, Xavier Theoret wrote:
>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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