File associations question (hoary)

[Eric Potter]

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 22:14 -0300, Julio Biason wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 12:34 -0700, Eric Potter wrote:
> > Using nautilus, I want to open avi files with mplayer.  With Warty, I
> > set "open with" like this:
> > 
> > mplayer %s -loop 0
> > 
> > This no longer works with Hoary.  Does anyone know the correct way
> > to put the file name into the command line?
> 
> On Warty, I had "mplayer -vo sdl", without the %s. I've upgraded to
> Hoary and it still work. Have you tried to use "mplayer -loop 0"?
> 
> -- 
> Julio Biason <julio.biason at terra.com.br>
> 
> 
That does work, but not as well.  With "-loop 0" at the end of the
command line, the window will stay where I placed it.  With the file
name at the end, the window is destroyed, then recreated and recentered
after each iteration of the loop.