Always open with and Change all doesn't work

Hello,
I'm having trouble changing what application should be used when opening movie files (.avi, .mkv etc).
I'm using mplayer (not the gui extended one), and I've made an .app that runs a script to open the chosen file in mplayer.
It works fine if I tell the individual file to always open with that specific application, but if I choose Get info so that I can use the "change all", and got my own app chosen, it just changes back to the default one.
I did a repair permissions on my disk, but nothing changes.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks

Update:
I decided to make an app in Automator.
In automator I chose "Get Selected Finder Items" to get the file I'm trying to open.
After that I added a "Run Shell Script", set the pass input to as arguments. The command was
/PATH/TO/YOUR/mplayer "$@"
Then save as application. Worked fine for me to set .avi to use it, and also use "change all".
So I guess the problem got solved. But it doesn't explain why my app made in the applescript editor couldn't have the "change all" clicked without changing to something else.

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