On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 13:01 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote: > The detection of M4A files as video/* is just plain wrong, OTOH. If it > doesn't contain a video stream, it mustn't be in video/*.
M4A files are audio inside a Quicktime container and the mime-type assigned for Quicktime is video/quicktime, so although it might not be what we want, it is technically correct. > Now you'll ask me: what about a (for example) AVI container with Theora > video and MP3 sound? Should it be application/x-avi (or > application/x-mplayer2), audio/x-mp3 and video/x-theora? Well, I don't > know. I guess it really depends on the use-case and what you need this > data for. This would work, as music players could search for files that have audio/* and no video/* types. The only question is whether any/all of the backend searchers do this, as it would make it awkward for what to do to depend on the backend. That said, there are probably few non-multimedia apps that would run across "exactly what is in the container" issues. Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- "Once one has achived full endarkenment, one is happy to have an entirely nonfunctional computer" - Steve VanDevender, ASR _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
