Get rid of annoying Recommended Applications list when doing Open With

Whenever you try to specify a file to open with another application, by way of ctrl clicking it, it pops up the file dialog, but most of the files are greyed out until you change the drop down at the top from "recommended applications" to "all applications." This is INCREDIBLY annoying, and I either need to know how to add applications to the recommended list, or to make it default to All applications.
An example of this problem, is when opening a video file. It's a .avi so it opens with QuickTime via flip4mac by default, which is fine. Now I really want to open it with EyeTV, which definitely supports .avi's, and I prefer watching them with EyeTV. But when I right click it to open with eyetv this one time, in the open with menu it lists every other freaking video playing app I have besides EyeTV. VLC, mplayer, Audacity, real player, even my HP printer software for some reason. But to get to EyeTV I have to go through like 5 extra steps.
Thanks.

Each application tells LaunchServices the file types that it can use, which is used to enable the various applications in the "Recommended Applications" or "Open With" lists. If an application can't handle a particular file type, or if the application isn't set up correctly, then it won't show up in these lists because the system doesn't know that the application can handle it. File Types can be added to an application's Info.plist file (inside the application package), in the CFBundleDocumentTypes dictionary by using the Property List Editor application (or equivalent). You can make an application unusable by messing with this file, so you do need to know a little about what you are doing (and always make a backup copy). There are several articles on Apple's developer site, such as Property Key List Reference, and Document Types.

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