mplayer as a default player

[O-pos]

Hello,

I want to make mplayer as a default player for every available video format. currently, the default video player is totem and if I double-click video file, it opens in Totem. If I want to open the video file in mplayer, I have to right-click it and then select "open with mplayer". Is it possible to make mplayer default player for video? so that after double-click the video files could directly be lounched in mplayer?

[katzdvd]

Hi O-pos,

As a new linux user, I don't have much advice to offer that you don't already know, but I did find this.

I was using mplayer for awhile, but I found that I seem to like VLC better...

katz

[anonymez]

See this post.

[O-pos]

See this post.

thanks, it works fine with video files but what about DVD movies? as a default when I insert the DVD they automatically start in Totem.

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I was using mplayer for awhile, but I found that I seem to like VLC better...

I used VLC before mplayer, but I find mplayer more powerful and interesting.

Anonymez, what is your default player in ubuntu?

[anonymez]

but what about DVD movies? as a default when I insert the DVD they automatically start in Totem

System-->Preferences-->Removable Drives & Media

what is your default player in ubuntu?

SVN mplayer. I find VLC to be buggy with MPEG TS and not as flexible as mplayer.

[O-pos]

System-->Preferences-->Removable Drives & Media

Instead of totem %m should I write mplayer%m or just mplayer?

regarding online media, let's say I want to watch "nine million bicycles" on the katie melua website (http://www.katiemelua.com/index2.php) there's a link "Watch now" and when I click, it offers either to open with Totem movie player, or to download it. Yes, there's an option to select other program to open it, but not like it was with video files - "use a custom command" . where I used just to enter mplayer as a command. It just requires a location, which I don't know for mplayer. how could I do that?

[anonymez]

Instead of totem %m should I write mplayer%m or just mplayer?

Try

mplayer dvd://

or

gmplayer dvd://

If you prefer the GUI.

It just requires a location, which I don't know for mplayer

Should be in /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin. You might like to read this.