windows won't open AVIs with the player I want it to use

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2006-06-25 12:54am

As you can see, I currently have windows set to use media player classic for playing AVIs. But unless I right-click and chose open with, windows wants to open them in windows media player every time. All other files open with the player I want them to open with, so why aren't AVIs doing the same ?

I've tried deleting the entry and double clicking the file. Windows asks me which to use, I say media player classic and tell windows to always open with that program. Next time I double click the file (or open from another application) windows media player opens it.

How can I get windows to open it with media player classic when I double click ?

Rin · Post by **Rin** » 2006-06-25 01:35am

Have you removed the association from WiMP settings too? That might overpower windows' setting...

I haven't moved complitely to MPC yet, but seeing next(current?) WiMP with Vista Beta it might not be far...

--Rin

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-06-25 01:37am

I had this problem too - as far as I can tell, WMP is just a cunt and doesn't want to let you use anything else. I went through the MIME list and changed everything that used WMP to whatever, and it stopped.

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2006-06-25 01:55am

Rin wrote:Have you removed the association from WiMP settings too? That might overpower windows' setting...

I had removed all file assocations from within WiMP, that didn't help.

For some reason I decided to reapply that assocation within WiMP, then remove it. Directly after doing that (I didn't have to tell windows to use MPC again) I double clicked on an AVI and MPC actually played it. There is no way that should of fixed it, yet it did.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2006-06-25 01:57am

bilateralrope wrote:
Rin wrote:Have you removed the association from WiMP settings too? That might overpower windows' setting...
I had removed all file assocations from within WiMP, that didn't help.

For some reason I decided to reapply that assocation within WiMP, then remove it. Directly after doing that (I didn't have to tell windows to use MPC again) I double clicked on an AVI and MPC actually played it. There is no way that should of fixed it, yet it did.

WMP being a cunt, a stealing the association regardless seems to be the verdict then.

Ariphaos · Post by **Ariphaos** » 2006-06-25 02:17am

"Files with extension 'API' are of type 'API file'..."

Funny.

I'll see if I can figure something out.