https://bugs.gpodder.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1673

--- Comment #2 from [email protected] 2012-09-23 18:26:32 BST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Which version of gPodder and which OS are you using? If you set the audio (or
> video) player in the gPodder preferences to a specific application (i.e. set 
> it
> to VLC, even if the system default is VLC) then there will be an option to
> preview the media.
> 
> The reason why you can't preview files with the system default is that some
> environments don't know how to handle a file with extension .partial (which is
> was we use for partial downloads). Once we have a specific application that we
> can pass the .partial file to (and assuming that the application can handle
> that - e.g. VLC works great there), it works.

Ah! I had not known that.

Is it a characteristic of the ".partial" extension or that the file is
incomplete that confuses some media players? If it's the former, then what is
the necessity for the ".partial" extension?

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