.mpg files are playing in my Quicktime Player???

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  • DeanCapture
    Haters & Trolls SUCK!
    • Dec 2002
    • 9275

    #1

    .mpg files are playing in my Quicktime Player???

    When I click a .mpg movie link, it comes up in my Quicktime player instead of the Windows Media Player (just started doing that for some reason). How do I correct this so that the movie will play in my WMP player?
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  • Violetta
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    • Jul 2004
    • 28735

    #2
    hmm... find a .mpg file on your computer and right click on it! Then click open with... Click Windows Media Player, and mark the "always open in this program"

    Hope that works
    M&A Queen

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    • DeanCapture
      Haters & Trolls SUCK!
      • Dec 2002
      • 9275

      #3
      Originally posted by Rockatansky
      hmm... find a .mpg file on your computer and right click on it! Then click open with... Click Windows Media Player, and mark the "always open in this program"

      Hope that works
      hmmm - that almost worked. It would allow me to watch the file on my computer with Windows Media Player but when I click a link on page with a .mpg file, it opens up Quicktime. I've set the quicktime prefs and the Windows Media Prefs but that doesn't seem to be working? Dis' shit is fucked up

      Anymore ideas anyone? I'm using Firefox!
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      • Violetta
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        • Jul 2004
        • 28735

        #4
        uninstall QT! Click a link and hopefully it will open WMP. Then install QT again, and during the install, makes sure you get the settings right! I bet there is a new version of QT since your last install!
        M&A Queen

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        • SmokeyTheBear
          ►SouthOfHeaven
          • Jun 2004
          • 28609

          #5
          quicktime is a piece of shit for that , im sure theres a way but i recently had the same porblem and just turfed the piece of crap , never use it much anyways , if you cant put your videos out in popular format its prob not wrth watching hah
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          • Bama
            Confirmed User
            • Nov 2001
            • 2727

            #6
            Tell WM to take back that extension from QT

            Open WM - click on tools and then choose File Types and find the extensions you want WM to open with and click on em'

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            • Violetta
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              • Jul 2004
              • 28735

              #7
              Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear
              quicktime is a piece of shit
              not a big fan me neither!
              M&A Queen

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              • BannerDept
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                • Apr 2006
                • 511

                #8
                you should not be here, if you don't know how to fix that

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                • gideongallery
                  Confirmed User
                  • Aug 2003
                  • 7082

                  #9
                  my computer
                  tools
                  folder options
                  file type
                  find extensions which have quicktime logo beside them and change the ones you want to play with windows media player by clicking the change button and selecting window media player.

                  Or you could reinstall windows media player and when microsoft asks you if you want to be the default player say yes. Then microsoft will take every file association back.

                  “When crimes occur through the mail, you don’t shut the post office down,” Steve Wozniak

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                  • GatorB
                    The Demon & 12clicks
                    • Oct 2001
                    • 18208

                    #10
                    Originally posted by gideongallery
                    my computer
                    tools
                    folder options
                    file type
                    find extensions which have quicktime logo beside them and change the ones you want to play with windows media player by clicking the change button and selecting window media player.

                    Or you could reinstall windows media player and when microsoft asks you if you want to be the default player say yes. Then microsoft will take every file association back.
                    I have had this problem too and the thing is .mpg are set to be opened with WM Player yet still open with Quicktime. Only files Quicktime is set to open are Quicktime files like .mov

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                    • gideongallery
                      Confirmed User
                      • Aug 2003
                      • 7082

                      #11
                      Originally posted by GatorB
                      I have had this problem too and the thing is .mpg are set to be opened with WM Player yet still open with Quicktime. Only files Quicktime is set to open are Quicktime files like .mov
                      the problem is people don't realize that there are other relay types in the master list (ones that allow embedded playing of mpgs) you need to change all of these too.

                      easiest way is to take advantage of microsofts "borg ness" and let them take the default status on all of them.

                      You can do it manually thou.

                      “When crimes occur through the mail, you don’t shut the post office down,” Steve Wozniak

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