Bug#763174: advene: Please add video/ogg as supported mime type for Ogg Theora

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package: advene
Version: 1.1-1
Severity: important
User: debian-edu at lists.debian.org
Usertags: debian-edu

Please add video/ogg to the advene desktop file, to indicate that
advene can play Ogg Theora files.

This is the use case: I record a screen session using
gtk-recordmydesktop, and when I stop the recording it store the video
as Ogg Theora and I end up with a file out.ogv in my home directory.
I next visit the KDE file manager, and click on the video to play the
recording.  The audacity program is started, and it fail to display
anything and just hang.  I believe the same problem happen with other
file managers too, but have not checked them all.  The audacity hang
of course is an error in itself, but the real error here is that the
wrong program is started.  For Ogg Theora files, it would be better if
advene or another installed video player is started.  The audio tools
are not fit for the task!

For this to work, the "file --mime-type out.ogv" program should not
return "application/ogg" but a video related MIME type like
"video/ogg", and all video players capable of playing Ogg Theora files
should list that MIME type in their .desktop file.  I've asked for
file to change behavour (bug #762561), and now ask the video players
to change their list of MIME types handled and add "video/ogg".
Please add it before Jessie to make this happen. :)

The video/ogg is in the official MIME registry maintained by IATA,
<URL: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#video >.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen