ogg [was Re: [clahey at ximian.com: docbook mime type detection]]

[Luis Villa]

On 8/10/05, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 21:28 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On 7/26/05, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> > > > What would be preferable then? (I looked for what ogg tarkin does, but
> > > > no success- seems it isn't in the primary DB either?)
> > >
> > > Ogg Tarkin isn't a filetype. Tarkin is the video codec, Ogg is the
> > > container. Only the container has a mime-type (this is slightly
> > > different for some other video types because they have different file
> > > extensions for different purposes).
> >
> > OK, so, on my system muine claims in muine.desktop to own the following:
> >
> > MimeType=audio/x-mpegurl;application/x-
> > ogg;application/ogg;application/x-flac;audio/x-flac;audio/x-
> > mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;
> >
> > Apparently the net result of this is that, in a default installation,
> > muine is the default handler for theora. What should the muine
> > .desktop file (or the system defaults.list?) do to fix this, so that
> > vorbis is handled with muine (or whatever) and theora with totem (or
> > whatever?)
> 
> There's no way to do that. That's what you get for having the same mime-
> type for 2 different types of data. Some types that can be both video
> and audio-only (like 3gpp files) allow web authors to differentiate them
> through additional mime-types (audio/3gpp and video/3gpp).

That is *spectacularly* broken. I assume the ogg people have been
larted for this?

Luis