Well so far my Ubuntu Hardy experience is great. i completely switched from windows xp to Hardy and i expect never EVER return with my tail between my legs
I have a few questions that have being bugging me for a while and still can't find a solution for. I have mplayer (with smplayer front-end), totem-gstreamer (hardy default) and VLC player.
Im usually watching a LOT of movies and videos in general in my laptop, put so far im having problems maintaining one video player as the default in gnome.
When i go to system>administration>prefered applications i see only a media tab (hating that) besides when i change the media default for "smplayer %s" (i add the %s because the tooltip showing says so)... Ok where was i... When i add that NOTHING happens, all my video files keep opening with totem. Then i manually change each file extension to open with smplayer. (right click>properties>open with>smplayer)
so far that solution has being somewhat unstable. When using deluge and double clicking on play video (from deluge) opens totem (which i hate no offense). I experimented so many times i got so tired that i just did "sudo apt-get remove totem-gstreamer". Oh boy if i knew...
My videos thumbnails stop showing (at least new ones), i thing i reed something, somewhere about mplayer plugging for thumbnails, but i didn't knew (till now) that totem whas in charge of that.
So after all this blah blah blah my question is how can i really make a default video player or audio player with such a poor gui offered by gnome in that area (maybe im missing something big?)
I had to reinstall totem-gstreamer so my videos thumbs worked again.
Thx for puting up with me.
P.S: I don´t wanna start any flame war or something but since it came up... what do you think about smplayer? i dont like the way vlc player handles subs and mplayers GUI seems to crash all the time.
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