[Bug 269928] New: "Media player" as a choice in the "Default Applications"-dialog

[incarus6 at googlemail.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269928

           Summary: "Media player" as a choice in the "Default
                    Applications"-dialog
           Product: systemsettings
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: kcm_componentchooser
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: incarus6 at googlemail.com


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

I think it's time for the section "media player" in the Default Applications
configurations module, because you can't change the default player for every
single file format and that is sometimes annoying.
For example when you try to play a wmv-file with a media player. Most of the
listed player aren't supposed to play wmv files (Amarok -> music only, Banshee
-> crashing, gnome mplayer -> doesn't support wmv, xine -> crashing, dragon
player -> crashing, totem -> working here) and sometimes you can not remove
these (in this case) unneeded "components" without removing a lot of other
packages (because of the dependencies). Kmplayer is at the moment my default
media player and it simply doesn't work all the time (for example with wmv
files) and it would be better if I can set VLC for example as the default media
player. Just VLC and totem is working with WMV-files, why are all these other
media players pretend to work with wmv files but they aren't?
The issue here is not, that wmv isn't working, the issue is that these players
are NOT working but listed in the list of default media players and that you
can't revert this settings en masse (for multiple media file formats with just
on click)

Reproducible: Didn't try

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