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

--- Comment #3 from Thomas Perl <[email protected]> 2012-09-23 18:31:05 BST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (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?

The .partial extension is necessary for gPodder to distinguish between a
partial download and a complete download. Also, it helps the user to see that
the file has not finished downloading (e.g. when gPodder crashes).

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