[Wine] linux media player as default media player for WINE

[Jim Hall]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Gunther Furtado <gunfurtado at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First post, so please be nice ; )
>
> I am trying to set my linux vlc as default media player for wine. I am
> trying to do that because i use a software called TVAnts to tune tv
> channels and I would like to skip one step of the process which is
> starting vlc or any other media player and point it to the address of
> the stream. something like:
>
> $ vlc http://localhost:16900/1.asf
>
> As I understand from [1] and [2], I have to add something like
> [@="\"/usr/bin/vlc\" \"-zoom\" \"%L\""] in the .reg files using
> regedit but I can't get exactly what line I should alter.
>
>
> [1]http://simonatlinux.wordpress.com/2006/06/22/tvants-on-linux/
> [2]http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/how-to-make-wine-open-links-in-your.html
>
> tia,
>
> --
>


Why not just use the Windoze version of VLC in Wine?
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2923

I believe someone has said it's not a good idea for Wine to access the Linux
file system.

Jim
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