[Sebastian Ramacher]
> Hi Petter
Hi.
> It's a lot easier for us if you send a patch upstream [1] and point us
> to the commit. Or wait until someone of use has the time to do that.
Right. I'll try to see if I can do that. Until then, I decided to
compare the announced supported Mime types for the VLC desktop file and
the browser plugin, and was surprised that there was quite a lot of
difference there:
These are only announced by the desktop file:
application/x-extension-mp4
application/x-flac
application/x-shockwave-flash
audio/amr-wb
audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
audio/x-mp3
audio/x-ms-asf
audio/x-ms-asx
audio/x-ms-wax
audio/x-pn-aiff
audio/x-pn-au
audio/x-pn-realaudio
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin
audio/x-pn-wav
audio/x-pn-windows-acm
audio/x-real-audio
audio/x-scpls
audio/x-vorbis+ogg
image/vnd.rn-realpix
misc/ultravox
video/dv
video/mp2t
video/mp4v-es
video/msvideo
video/vnd.rn-realvideo
video/x-anim
video/x-avi
video/x-flc
video/x-fli
video/x-nsv
video/x-ogm+ogg
x-content/audio-cdda
x-content/audio-player
x-content/video-dvd
x-content/video-svcd
x-content/video-vcd
x-scheme-handler/mms
x-scheme-handler/rtmp
x-scheme-handler/rtsp
These are only announced by the browser plugin:
application/mpeg4-iod
application/mpeg4-muxcodetable
application/x-google-vlc-plugin
application/x-mplayer2
application/x-vlc-plugin
audio/3gpp
audio/3gpp2
audio/flac
audio/m4a
audio/ogg;
audio/wav
audio/x-ms-wma
audio/x-realaudio
codecs=opus
video/3gpp
video/3gpp2
video/divx
video/flv
video/mpeg-system
video/x-m4v
video/x-mpeg-system
video/x-ms-asf-plugin
video/x-ms-wvx
I suspect both should agree on the MIME types supported by VLC. Note
that none of them support the MIME type requested in this bug report.
I used this script to generate the list:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Compare supported MIME types of vlc desktop file and browser plugin.
cat > x.c <<EOF
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
void *lib_handle;
char *error;
lib_handle = dlopen(argv[1], RTLD_LAZY);
if (!lib_handle) {
fprintf(stderr, "error: unable to load library\n");
return(1);
}
char * (*func)(void);
func = dlsym(lib_handle, "NP_GetMIMEDescription");
if (NULL != (error = dlerror())) {
fprintf(stderr, "error: from dlsym: %s\n", error);
return 1;
}
char *mimedesc = (*func)();
printf("%s\n", mimedesc);
dlclose(lib_handle);
return 0;
}
EOF
gcc -o x x.c -ldl
./x /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so | sed "s/;/;\n/g" | \
cut -d: -f1 |sort > plugin
grep ^MimeType /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop | cut -d= -f2- | \
tr ';' "\n" | sort > desktop
echo "These are only announced by the desktop file:"
comm -13 plugin desktop | sed 's/^/\t/'
echo "These are only announced by the browser plugin:"
comm -23 plugin desktop | sed 's/^/\t/'
rm plugin desktop x
--
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
