OK, so OSX is married to Quicktime (which is pretty much the most horrible video player ever IMO). I use VLC to open pretty much all my video files, but how can I make it the default program for ...

Yeah I know, it's probably a recipe for disaster for a Linux noob but I wanted to have a play.<br>I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 (Desktop) on a PC that has been pressed into service as a temporary home file ...