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re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types'
Tuesday, April 1, 2003 at 11:26 am
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Posted by OJDIDIT (1 messages posted)

That worked for me, but now I have yet another annoying problem that won't go away. Now instead of the MPG opening in QuickTime inside a webpage, the darn thing opens in the stupid IE Media Bar to the left. HOW DO I STOP THIS?!? I just want to use WMP to look at clips independent of IE!

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.

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Xavier Theoret: Wednesday, April 3, 2002 at 6:15 pm)

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Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Xavier Theoret: Fri, Mar 22, 2002, 6:38 pm)

re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Norman De Forest: Wed, Mar 27, 2002, 1:23 am)

re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Xavier Theoret: Wed, Apr 3, 2002, 6:15 pm)

re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Igor: Thu, Feb 20, 2003, 12:02 pm)

re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (OJDIDIT: Tue, Apr 1, 2003, 11:26 am)

re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Rick_GoCougs: Sat, Apr 29, 2006, 12:38 am)

Beware viri in that like mentioned multiple times in this thread. (Rick_GoCougs: Sat, Apr 29, 2006, 1:01 am)

re: Beware viri in that like mentioned multiple times in this thread. (Xavier Theoret: Mon, Oct 9, 2006, 5:49 pm)

re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (ken watanabe: Sun, Jul 15, 2007, 10:13 am)

re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types' (Xavier Theoret: Thu, Jul 19, 2007, 6:29 pm)

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