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Hi Rasheed,
thanks for asking.
What appears for a certain file depends fully on what OS X Launch
Services will return to Remote Buddy when it asks for applications
that can open a file. There are two work arounds:
- change the suffix of your flv files to something that matches with
QuickTime Player's file types dictionary: i.e. mov or avi
- modify QuickTime Player.app/Contents/Info.plist, so the file type
dictionary includes flv. To do this, change this block:
[..]
<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>mov</string>
<string>qt</string>
</array>
[..]
into this:
[..]
<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>mov</string>
<string>qt</string>
<string>flv</string>
</array>
[..]
You may want to run LSRefresh (to be found on the blog on this
website) on QuickTime Player.app after you made that change to ensure
Launch Services reads the altered dictionary.
The benefit of the latter method is that you'll also be able to
choose QuickTime Player for flv files in the Finder and other apps
that use Launch Services to get a list of applications for a certain
file type.
Best regards,
Felix