<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I don't know exactly how to change the default player to mplayer but to set the default options for when mplayer starts you can create a file: ~/mplayer/config and place the options in the file. For example mine looks like: ~/.mplayer$ cat config # Write your default config options here! lirc ="no" joystick="no" cache="8192" double="yes" Steven Vollom wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:200812230156.39472.stevenvollom@sbcglobal.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I don't know if this is possible, however, since the purchase of my new monitor, I find myself always choosing MPlayer as my movie player, because I can change to aspect ratio to 16:9. My preference would be that whenever I wanted to play a movie on the computer, it would automatically open with MPlayer as the default movie player, and the default aspect ratio to be 16:9. I also think it would be attractive for people with different aspect ratios to be able to set their default settings to meet the needs of their particular monitor shapes. Can this be done? TIA. Steven </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>