Unable to set SMPLayer as default

[PrinceNo1]

Using Ubuntu 12.04.1 i set SMPlayer as default movie player in my system settings and i want movie files to open with SMPlayer whenever i try double-click on them but doesnt work. The system still recognises standard Mplayer as default.
I also set SMPlayer to open movie files from "open with another app" menu but this doesnt work either. I uninstalled and reinstalled Mplayer and SMPlayer many times with no luck. Am i doing something wrong?
I know SMPlayer is a frontend for Mplayer but i want to use SMplayer as default.

[alan21276]

If you right click on a movie file, then goto -properties, next select -open with.......then you can set a default application. You will need to do this for each file type once and it will then forever be remembered by the system.

[PrinceNo1]

oh yea i realised that now, thank you for fast reply but why is this so weird in ubuntu? 3 different places to set an app as default?

[alan21276]

yes, it does seem a bit backwards, there is another way to set default applications.....but it seems to ignore whatever you set it to, at least the round about way seems to work.

[PrinceNo1]

Thank you again do i have to close this topic now and how?