I hate to say it, but as part of a small paid open source development team with a very active community bug tracker for our own product, which is not supposed to prevent us from working on the features we need to implement (for the paying customers who make the open product possible) I can very well understand why this is still an issue after four, five or whatever years.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to shared-mime-info in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502642 Title: .ts files always get recognized as application/x-linguist and never as video/mp2t (mpeg transport stream) Status in shared MIME database: Fix Released Status in shared-mime-info package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: New Bug description: Binary package hint: shared-mime-info I checked Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic: *.ts files are always mapped to application/x-linguist by /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml. But there are several Linux-based settop boxes that record videos in *.ts-files. So if application/x-linguist is obsolete then it should simply be replaced by video/mpeg. Otherwise the mime framework has to distinguish such files by inspecting their headers. If someone knows more about x-linguist files, please add a comment! The problem has already been reported upstream two month ago (see freedesktop.org above). But for 10.04 LTS we should fix it by a patch, if it is not fixed upstream by then. As a workaround copy the attached file to ~/.local/share/mime/packages/mpeg-ts.xml and update your mime-database with: $ update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime To trigger the regeneration of failed thumbnails just delete them: $ rm ~/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/*.png ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Jan 3 17:47:29 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) Package: shared-mime-info 0.70-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic SourcePackage: shared-mime-info Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/shared-mime-info/+bug/502642/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp