Problem with .mov clip on dvd disk.

Someone gave me a DVD disk with several mov movie clips.

Under WXP PRO SP2, when I double click on any of the mov files
to play it, I get an error message saying it wants Quicktime, which I
do not have, and it bombs. I do have VLC media player v0.8.6, and it
will play the clip when I open the clip explicitly via VLC's 'open
file'. The same thing happens when I use 'open with' for the clip,
and I choose VLC over Quicktime.

However, although I tell XP to remember (!) that I want to use VLC for
all mov files, when I double click on the mov clip, XP chooses
Quicktime again. And it bombs again. In other words, XP doesn't seem
to remember that I want it to use VLC for mov files, at least when
said mov file is on a disk. Interestingly, when I copy a mov file
from the DVD disk to hard disk and double click on the mov file there,
VLC is selected by XP to play it, and it plays fine.

Under VISTA, none of this happens, VLC is selected to play a mov clip
when I double click on a mov file on the DVD disk.

Can someone suggest what the problem is here?

Thanks

-GECKO

Don
Fri May 02 05:00:05 PDT 2008

"gecko" <alpha@olympus.net> wrote in message
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> However, although I tell XP to remember (!) that I want to use VLC for
> all mov files, when I double click on the mov clip, XP chooses
> Quicktime again. And it bombs again. In other words, XP doesn't seem
> to remember that I want it to use VLC for mov files, at least when
> said mov file is on a disk. Interestingly, when I copy a mov file
> from the DVD disk to hard disk and double click on the mov file there,
> VLC is selected by XP to play it, and it plays fine.
>
> Under VISTA, none of this happens, VLC is selected to play a mov clip
> when I double click on a mov file on the DVD disk.
>
> Can someone suggest what the problem is here?

/ Start / Help / FILE ASSOCIATION explains the theory.

Windows Registry or Hive links each specific filetype e.g.
MOV to just one particular application e.g. VLC or Quicktime.
Each such setting can be altered via / My Computer / View
or by the checkbox in the /Start with . . . routine.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

gecko
Fri May 02 07:06:54 PDT 2008

On Fri, 2 May 2008 08:00:05 -0400, "Don Phillipson"
<e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote:

>/ Start / Help / FILE ASSOCIATION explains the theory.
>
>Windows Registry or Hive links each specific filetype e.g.
>MOV to just one particular application e.g. VLC or Quicktime.
>Each such setting can be altered via / My Computer / View
>or by the checkbox in the /Start with . . . routine.


The 'start with...' process is exactly what I tried to use to direct
XP to use VLC to play the mov clip. And in fact XP will use VLC as I
described except when the clip is on a DVD disk. Strange. (to me)

Thanks

-GECKO