Clicking on Home, Docs, Video or Pics folder opens MPlayer

[BlownCPU]

I have this very strange problem after trying to play a DVD which MPlayer was unable to play. So I took the DVD out and this is what happens, it's been happening like this for the past few days.

When I click on Places & any of the folders on the drop down list, excluding Search & Recent, MPlayer opens with an Error message window "Seek failed"

Has anyone got an idea how I can get my drop down list to work normally?
I don't see what MPlayer has to do with me choosing to open a folder in my directiory.

Cheers,

Blown CPU

[Hlingler]

Wow. Sounds like the mime-type associations got messed up somehow. Off-hand, only thing I can think to try is to un-install mplayer, check, then re-install it. See what happens....

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[BlownCPU]

I have just un-installed MPlayer, rebooted and things went back to normal.

Now I have just re-installed mplayer, rebooted it and the problem is back :-(

Perhaps I need to edit a file somewhere, where it tells mplayer to open?

Blown CPU

[Hlingler]

KDE or Guh-NOME? This appears to be a mime-type association problem. Possibly because of the mplayer RPM??? Where did you get mplayer?

If KDE, I'd just edit the file associations in Kontrol Kenter. Not sure where to do that in Guh-NOME.

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[remeeraz]

Originally Posted by BlownCPU

I have this very strange problem after trying to play a DVD which MPlayer was unable to play. So I took the DVD out and this is what happens, it's been happening like this for the past few days.

When I click on Places & any of the folders on the drop down list, excluding Search & Recent, MPlayer opens with an Error message window "Seek failed"

Has anyone got an idea how I can get my drop down list to work normally?
I don't see what MPlayer has to do with me choosing to open a folder in my directiory.

Cheers,

Blown CPU

Go to your Home folder using the icon on your desktop. Now right click on any of the folders (Video, Pictures) and select "Open with Other Aplication..."

at the bottom of the "Open With" window click on "Use a custom command" and type in the box
nautilus

Then click the "open" button, that should solve the problem for you from then on.

[BlownCPU]

I have GNOME.

remeeraz ... you are a star such a simple fix... now why didn't I think of that?

Thanks, it's all working now :-)

Blown CPU

[remeeraz]

Originally Posted by BlownCPU

I have GNOME.

remeeraz ... you are a star such a simple fix... now why didn't I think of that?

Thanks, it's all working now :-)

Blown CPU

Heh heh No proplem bud!

I like it when people say thanks!