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[Bill Filler <1518332@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that you should be able to open video files directly in the
mediaplayer-app, however mediaplayer-app is not a library and cannot
"import" files and doesn't present this to content-hub as gallery does.

However, you can request files to be played by mediaplayer-app by using url-dispatcher with the video:///<url> argument.
Filemanager should directly call url-dispatcher for Video files (can use Qt.openUrlExternally()) instead of or in addition to asking content-hub to import them. This has the benefit of not doing a file copy as well as mediaplayer will play from where it is where content-hub makes a copy.

I'm opening a filemanager task for this bug.

** Changed in: mediaplayer-app (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: ubuntu-filemanager-app (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  Media player not registered with file manager as a handler for .MP4
  files....

Status in Canonical System Image:
  Confirmed
Status in mediaplayer-app package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubuntu-filemanager-app package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I would expect to be able to open a .MP4 video from the file manager,
  and have it play in Media Player... but the it seems that Media Player
  is not an option for playback, only Gallery, which is not terribly
  suitable.

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