How do I setup a particular video player as the default player

Wed Nov 12 02:29:02 UTC 2008

On 11/11/2008 12:16 PM, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 02:34 -0500, Mark wrote:
>> I am running Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop and have been
>> trying to find a way that when I put a dvd in my drive that the dvd
>> will play with the default application that I choose. Thanks.
> 
> I answered the same question of yours two weeks ago or so. Cannot be
> done in 8.04, but it is possible in 8.10
> 
> 

Well, you are partially right... this was/is a raging debate in Hardy,
but it is very possible. Unfortunately I've been celebrating US Veterans
Day this evening, so my ability to provide detailed/simplified
instructions on how to do this are not trustworthy just now :-) Anyway,
here are the necessary links (cascaded - last link provides a
workaround, but I'd recommend reading the others first):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770970
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/221330
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/227162
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532474
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4941152&postcount=23