Bug#763173: mpv: Please add video/ogg as supported mime type for Ogg Theora

[Alessandro Ghedini]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/pull/1132

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:25:15PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> Package: mpv
> Version: 0.5.3-1
> Severity: important
> User: debian-edu at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: debian-edu
> 
> Please add video/ogg to the mpv desktop file, to indicate that mpv 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 mpv 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. :)

Sounds good. I sent a patch upstream.

Cheers
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