Forcing link to open in Quicktime instead of VLC

Question

Hi,
The page www.railaway.tv has its video in WMV format, which stream can be read by QuickTime with Flip4Mac. But unfortunately they make the links with a Flash button, so I can not see (and copy) the link and paste it in QuickTime. When I click on the link in Safari, it will launch VLC, which can not read it. When I remove VLC from my Mac, it will open Windows Media Player, which can not read it (and I can not save the movie from WMP). When I remove WMP, Safari gives me an error that it can not open the link. But it's proven that QT can! Someone gave me a link to one of the clips on the site, and pasting it in QT works. How can I force Safari to open the file in QT?
This is the direct link to one film:
mms://193.242.108.40/watchingme4od/europe/switzerland_winter.wmv
And no, selecting a .wmv movie in the Finder, get Info and change all wmv files to open in QT doesn't work. It only works then for full movie files, not for mms links.
Where can I change the file type to open in QT. Which actually is the file type of the link, as it is not a windows movie (yet). It's a stream.

Answer 1

Hi,
This is server side code , you should write in your C# code behind method for Click event of Link Button .
- Use 1st part code in your button event handler method. (Replace <username> with current user name), best way is to find the crome.exe location at your dev machine , and paste the path here -
process.StartInfo.FileName = @""; , default location is in user's appdata folder. Test the code.
- If the above code works , and if your crome.exe is in user's appdata folder , then you will need to find dynamic location of AppData folder for every user. That means the path should not be hard coded. The 2nd part of the code is an hint for how you can
find the appdata path in C#. Something like this
//var cromePath = @"C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\chrome.exe";
var cromePath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(
Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData), "\Local\Google\Chrome\chrome.exe");
using (var process = new Process())
process.StartInfo.FileName = cromePath;
process.StartInfo.Arguments = "your url";
process.Start();
So the step will be
- First try a direct call to crome,
var cromePath = @"crome.exe";
- if it not works , then try with hardcoded path of crome.exe from your dev machine for current user -
var cromePath = @"C:\Users\<currentUserName>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\chrome.exe";
- And if this work , then try it with dynamic path for any user, find appdata folder location through code 
var cromePath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(
Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData), "\Local\Google\Chrome\chrome.exe");
Hope this will help, if you are a C# developer then you can easily understand  the concept.
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