SillyDog701

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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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[richard mitnick]

My view is that I refuse to put Quicktime or iTunes on my computers. They want to take over your life.

My mp3 player is iRiver H10 20 gig. I have three of them.

So, I can avoid using iTunes and Quicktime completely. I have about 40 gigs of saved music and spoken word.

I use Winamp for playing music. I use WMP11 to rip in Vista, it rips in a flash. I use Roxio to burn, a snap. I sync with WMP, very very fast (not true in XP for WMP11, there, WMP10 is better).

But Winamp is the best for streaming audio(Real also works well), because so much of Live365 and Shoutcast is done as .pls. So, With Winamp up, I can move between streams, or streams and my own library in one click.

Some material at web sites will open in Winamp; but most opens in WMP. Here, I have no preference.

>>RSM

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[Antony]

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)...

I fail to see the point. QuickTime Player is a video player and a media player.

If you are unable to watch MPEG-2 movies on QuickTime Player, your simply need to buy MPEG-2 Playback Component for your QuickTime Player. (You don't need QuickTime Pro license). The reason for such fee charging is that Motion Pictures Expert Group charges the "player" (hardware or software) a fee.

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)...

Have you unchecked "MPEG - MPEG system, video, and audio files" option under "MIME Settings..."?


For your information, the MIME type is NOT just guessed by the file extension. It also due to the MIME type specification by the server, and the explicit MIME type specified by the server (regardless of file name extension) overrides the filename. So you call QuickTime "nazis at apple" because the server told your browser [tt].mpg[/tt] is MP3 music?

The easiest way is prevent so without modifying the default setting to download the file (save the file), usually Shift-clicking.

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