Hi all, I receive a ton of video clips encoded in Microsoft wmv format and have the extension .wmv. A particular pet peeve of mines is that these files arent double-clickable in nautilus and I get the error that these files have the extension .wmv that suggests they're type x-ms-wmv while the data in the file is type x-ms-asf.
Looking into this, I checked the MS site and came across http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q284094/ which states there is no real difference between the two types except for the extension and the mime type. With that in mind, I went ahead and aliased type x-ms-asf to x-ms-wmv. Now both ASF and WMV files are double-clickable in nautilus without any errors. I have been using this for about 3 weeks with no side effects however I dont have that many asf files to test what else may break. My question is would there be any side effects to aliasing one type to another like this? So far works great, totem-xine and mplayer have no problems. Seth $cat freedesktop.org.xml-wmv.patch --- documents/backup/freedesktop.org_orig.xml 2005-11-10 06:19:33.000000000 -0500 +++ /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org_patched.xml 2005-11-11 17:46:49.000000000 -0500 @@ -12378,6 +12378,7 @@ <comment xml:lang="sv">Microsoft WMV-video</comment> <comment xml:lang="uk">Відео-кліп Microsoft WMV</comment> <comment xml:lang="zh_CN">Microsoft WMV 视频</comment> + <alias type="video/x-ms-asf"/> <glob pattern="*.wmv"/> </mime-type> <mime-type type="video/x-msvideo"> _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
