https://bugs.gpodder.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502

--- Comment #2 from Thomas Perl <[email protected]> 2011-11-25 20:59:03 GMT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> @thp:
> 
> I found three ways to determine the mime type of a file:
> - "mimetypes" module in the standard library
> -- determines the mime-type from the file extension. Doesn't provide a
>    good result
> 
> - call "file" shell command.
> -- but that would not work on Windows I think
> 
> - python-magic (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic/)
> -- the best way, but than we had to add one more dependency to gPodder :-(
> 
> Do you know a better/another way to determine the mime-type from a file on the
> file-system?

Can't we hardcode the mime types in the extensions, because we already know the
file extension (e.g. mp4 for the mp4 converter script, etc..)?

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