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From: "Suvayu Ali"<fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com>;
Date: Thursday, Sep 27, 2012 6:25 PM
To: "users"<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>;
Subject: Re: Change default app. -
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 02:12:21PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 09/27/2012 05:37 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> How do I change the default application for playing a video file
> received from an iPhone [.mov]?
>
> Presently I have to save it and play with vlc which works perfectly.
> Something called "Parole" is all that is offered and I have never
> succeeded in playing anything using it, considering just removing
> it. Google describes methods for setting the default but they don't
> seem applicable to XFCE and F-17/64.
If you start the file manager, "Thunar", and then right click on the
X.mov file pick "Open with" and then "Open with other Application"
you
should be able to choose vlc and that choice should stick for all .mov
files.
Another desktop agnostic way might be:
$ xdg-mime default vlc.desktop `xdg-mime query filetype /path/to/file.mov`
To get parole to work, I believe you need the gstreamer packages
installed. This is from my laptop:
gstreamer-0.10.36-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.13-2.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.23-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-8.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.23-8.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree-0.10.22-3.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-2.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-4.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-1.fc17.x86_64
gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-1.fc17.x86_64
GL
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Suvayu
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