I downloaded Canola and Mplayer (I want to try Mediabox and will do later)

Canola looks fantasic and it's easy to use. Mplayer has no touch screen support for the menu, it's hard to fast forward the track and the libary list is just plain text. I transferred an array of video files from my PC to my N810 and tested them out on the 2 media players, as well as Nokia's default media player.

Out of the 3 players, Canola had trouble running most of my videos, while the default player played half ok. Mplayer had trouble with only the HD mp4 files and I think WMV. Every other format I tried worked fine.

I have a video of planets in space, where it zooms out of our galaxy and into another. Canola was able to play this AVI file but there was odd artifacts in the black and the video ran a little slow. In Mplayer, it ran perfectly. I have a music video and with Canola, the video's width is squashed but in Mplayer it plays fullscreen perfectly.

Canola is nice but I like Mplayer much better. I will keep both installed though as Canola is good for Youtube and may play other formats that Mplayer cannot.

I have 2 questions:

1) How do I set my default media player to Mplayer?

2) Are there plugins for Mplayer. Canola or the default player that allow support for more formats?

Thanks