re: Question about 'Prevent Programs From Changing Your File Types'
Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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Posted by Xavier Theoret
(10 messages posted)
Ah thoses filetype wars! Well, it is now 5 years since I have post this annoyance.
I can tell you that :
- Internet explorer changed a lot since then
- ITune is so much more important today than before, you solution would not have
been good back in 2002.
- I still consider this has being an annoyances since .mpg should be a video extension
(see mpeg.org).
But here is the solution... Sorry to not have posted here before... Webmasters are
forced to embed the movie within the web page. Basically, putting the file directly
on your site is the lazy but obsolete way of doing it. I'm still doing just that
see www.xtmedia.net.
Some people prefer to embed the file in a flash movie or sometime they use an Activex
component... This might be technical but basically the website have the burden of
displaying the movie (see youtube.com, cnn.com for examples).
I hope to finally have more time but I'm experimenting which technique works the
best for the movies... ;-)
Thanks for looking into it,
Xavier
On Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 10:13 am, ken watanabe wrote:
>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.
>
>
>
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