VLC Mac OS X Tiger is not recognized as player for .wm files

[frantisek]

times to times I get WMV files just with .wm extension. In this case VLC is not offered as player in Open with application. Only WMP a FlipForMac appears. Changing extension to .wmv fix that but that should not be sollution.
Draging file into palyer window also works but notdraging onto App's icon.

It is quite unhandy when I can not open files directly in mail (Thunderbird) when I get them as attachement.

VLC Version 0.9.9a Grishenko (Intel), 10.4.11, QuickTime™ Version 7.4.5 (67)
QTKit Version 7.4.5 (67)

Frantisek

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Sorry, but .wm isn't a normal extension for .wmv.

[frantisek]

Sorry, but .wm isn't a normal extension for .wmv.

Hmm, but who told that? I am getting tons of them. You should probably explain that to milions of PC geeks.
And is there any big problem with accepting such extension?

[fkuehne]

Not at all. However, we won't publish another release of the 0.9 branch, so this fix would require you to update to VLC 1.0.x and therefore Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

You can easily fix this yourself, however. Use the Finder to browse to VLC.app. Right-click on its icon (or use the wheel-button) and select "Show Package Contents"; open the shown "Contents" folder. There you find a file called "Info.plist". Open it with a plain text editor such as TextEdit (This is important! Don't use Word or Pages.) and search for "wmv". You'll find this xml block:

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<dict> <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key> <array> <string>wmv</string> </array> <key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key> <string>wmv.icns</string> <key>CFBundleTypeName</key> <string>Windows Media Video</string> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key> <string>Viewer</string> </dict>

Create a new line after <string>wmv</string> and paste this:

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<string>wm</string>

Save the file, restart the Finder (or just log-out and in again).