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Hello Rasheed,
Remote Buddy asks Launch Services which applications can handle a
particular file. Launch Services itself does determine the
applications to return based on which filetypes an application says it
can handle. Applications do this through the Info.plist file in their
application bundle.
Thus, if Mplayer doesn't turn up for selection, it lacks the records
in Info.plist that would tell the rest of the system it can handle FLV
files. You can add these records yourself, though:
1) In Finder right click on Mplayer.app and select "Show contents"
2) Open Contents/Info.plst in a plain text editor (like Subethaedit).
3) Search for a place that starts like
<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>nut</string>
..
and lists all the supported movie formats.
4) Add a line with
<string>flv</string>
5) Start Mplayer. Restart Remote Buddy.
6) If it still doesn't show up in RB, use LSRefresh from this site's
blog to manually trigger Launch Services to update its database with
the latest information of Mplayer.app. LS doesn't always reliably
detect changes inside bundles unless that app is copied around.
Best regards,
Felix