Sally Shears wrote:
I have a continuous problem... What application to use to play a file?
The extension is supposed to tell the OS which application to use, but
this falls apart with media files.
For example: Get an .avi file. Double click to play it. Quicktime
opens, then says, "Quicktime is missing software required to display
this movie file. Unfortunately, it is not available on the QuickTime
server." (I'm on Mac OS X Panther.)
On Linux, I use the 'file' command. It's not automated, but it
generally serves to clue me in. I suspect Mac OS X has 'file' too, but
I'm not sure.
% file mymovie.avi
mymovie.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 624 x 352, 23.98 fps,
video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)
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