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Default App for opening videos is SMPlayer, then why videos are being opened in Movie Player?

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1522 / 2 Years ago, mon, march 21, 2022, 5:10:54

I prefer smplayer over the movie-player to view videos on my 12.04.1. So I have set the default application for opening the videos as 'smplayer' under "Default Applications>>Video" .

But the change in the settings doesn't seem to help as searching for the video from unity plays it in Movie Player (previous default for video files).

Is there any step that I am missing?

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answered 2 Years ago ipentainer · Accepted Answer

I believe Ubuntu 12.04 currently does not follow the global defaults set under System Settings->Details->Default applications.

What you can do is go to that video's location in the File Manager, right click, then select Properties, go to the Open with tab, select the application you want (in your case that would be SMPlayer), the click Set as default.

Note that you will have to do this for every extension, if you do this for a .flv file, all .flv files will open in SMPlayer, same for .mp4, .wmv, and others.