Package: file Version: 1:5.19-2 Severity: important User: [email protected] Usertags: debian-edu
Not quite sure which package to report this against, as the problem is in the interplay between several packages. Starting with file, as I suspect that is where the key to fix it is placed. Please reassign if you believe tihs is the wrong package to change. This is the use case: I record a screen session using gtk-recordmydesktop, and when I stop the recording it store the video as Ogg Theora and I end up with a file out.ogv in my home directory. I next visit the KDE file manuager, and click on the video to play the recording. The audacity program is started, and it fail to display anything and just hang. I believe the same problem happen with other file managers too, but have not checked them all. The audacity hang of course is an error in itself, but the real error here is that the wrong program is started. For Ogg Theora files, it would be better if vlc or another installed video player is started. The audio tools are not fit for the task! If I understand how the file manager work, it uses the equivalent of 'file --mime-type out.ogv' to figure out which menu entry listed in /usr/share/applications/ to use to open the file. The output from the file command is "application/ogg", a MIME type supported by programs handling either video or audio Ogg files. There are also two mime types audio/ogg and video/ogg to indicate if the file is audio only or audio/video. Could the file magic database be changed to return "video/ogg" for Ogg Theora files? Then programs supporting Ogg Video files can add that MIME type to their list of supported mime types, and the user experience will be that a video player start when selecting a Ogg Theora video file. At the moment there is no desktop file claiming to support video/ogg, so that will have to be added too, to get this issue properly fixed. See also <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/479565 > about a related Ogg problem. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
