PREVENTING QUICKTIME FROM OPENING MPG WITHIN BROWSERS

That's easy... "mpg" is more akin to an MP3 than it is to an MPEG-2 video... you 
would think since its video, media player would open it... but Quicktime hijacks 
it because you set your Quicktime MIME types to open MP3s (and therefore mpg)... 

Let me guess.. you already opened quicktime and within the preferences unchecked 
all the MIME types except for MP3s because you use iTunes (and the only reason you 
still have quicktime is the nazis at apple force you to have quicktime in order for 
itunes to work)... 

plus, let me guess that in Mediaplayer->Tools->Options->Filetypes you *unchecked* 
MP3 becuase you want iTunes to handle that... well... that's the problem.

you have to have MediaPlayer the default player for MP3s... this will change the 
icons on MP3s... but your iTunes will still play all the MP3s in your playlists... 
THIS SHOULD FIX YOUR PROBLEM...

You can also do the following in prevent Quicktime from hijacking other things. 

First set a restore point. 

Then go to:
C:Program Files\Quicktime\plugins 
--> change the name (don't delete) all the plugins that start with "n"... add a new 
letter or something..."npqtplugin.dll" to "wnpqtplugin.dllll"

C:Program Files\Internet Explorer\PLUGINS
--> change the name (don't delete) all the plugins that start with "n"... add a new 
letter or something..."npqtplugin.dll" to "wnpqtplugin.dllll"

**NOTE: you must change the plugin names AFTER you have changed the MIME types in 
the traditional way... because Quicktime will refresh all the plugins in the above 
two locations every time you go to the Preferences tab. 







On Friday, March 22, 2002 at 6:38 pm, Xavier Theoret wrote:

>I have a question about Prevent 

>Programs From Changing Your File Types:


>

>... I have a similar problem with Internet Explorer 6 file type association? As 
an 

>example... Mpeg movies (*.MPG) are normally opened with Windows media

>player in windows. But, opening the same MPG file in a web page will call for Quicktime!! 

>Since I'm the webmaster of the test page (http://go.to/timelapse),

>I can garantee that there is no difference between the file on the web (read by 
Quicktime) 

>and on my disk (read by media player).

>

>Long ago, you could manually select which application will run for every file type 

>in IE. Not anymore?

>

>Any help would be great, Thanks!!

>

>Xavier Theoret


That's easy... "mpg" is more akin to an MP3 than it is to an MPEG-2 video... you 
would think since its video, media player would open it... but Quicktime hijacks 
it because you set your Quicktime MIME types to open MP3s (and therefore mpg)... 

Let me guess.. you already opened quicktime and within the preferences unchecked 
all the MIME types except for MP3s because you use iTunes (and the only reason you 
still have quicktime is the nazis at apple force you to have quicktime in order for 
itunes to work)... 

plus, let me guess that in Mediaplayer->Tools->Options->Filetypes you *unchecked* 
MP3 becuase you want iTunes to handle that... well... that's the problem.

you have to have MediaPlayer the default player for MP3s... this will change the 
icons on MP3s... but your iTunes will still play all the MP3s in your playlists... 
THIS SHOULD FIX YOUR PROBLEM...

You can also do the following in prevent Quicktime from hijacking other things. 

First set a restore point. 

Then go to:
C:Program Files\Quicktime\plugins 
--> change the name (don't delete) all the plugins that start with "n"... add a new 
letter or something..."npqtplugin.dll" to "wnpqtplugin.dllll"

C:Program Files\Internet Explorer\PLUGINS
--> change the name (don't delete) all the plugins that start with "n"... add a new 
letter or something..."npqtplugin.dll" to "wnpqtplugin.dllll"

**NOTE: you must change the plugin names AFTER you have changed the MIME types in 
the traditional way... because Quicktime will refresh all the plugins in the above 
two locations every time you go to the Preferences tab.  

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