[mythtv-users] file extension of recorded programs / mplayer firefox plugin?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/04/2006 06:44 PM, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> Is there any way to change the file extension of recorded programs
> when you click on them in mythweb? so that the mplayer firefox plugin
> is invoked?
>
> I guess I am asking if they can be set to have a .mpg extension on
> disk, or if it could be changed by mythweb or apache..
>
> Currently they have no file extension at all, i dont really want to
> setup a mime type of *.

The URL has no extension, but the handler /does/ transmit proper 
Content-disposition headers indicating the "suggested" filename--which 
does have an extension.  More importantly, the handler also transmits a 
proper Content-type header.

Note, however, that Firefox--as mandated by the HTTP 
specification--completely ignores the file extension of web content and, 
instead, handles content according to the specified MIME content type.  
IE, on the other hand, completely ignores the HTTP specification and 
does "the right thing" with the content based on file extension 
/regardless/ of MIME content type (which is why so many web servers out 
there are not properly configured--developers only tested with broken 
IE--and don't work on standards-compliant browsers).

Sure, Apache can automatically add a Content-Type header to a response 
based on file extensions when serving a file, but that /only/ works if 
Apache is serving the content.  In MythWeb's Recorded Programs page, the 
links trigger Perl code which serves the contend, completely bypassing 
Apache's file handling.

So, in reality, the extension means nothing in this case.  You just need 
to set up your browser to specify a handler for the appropriate video type.

Mike

At the bottom of the message are example headers obtained with:

wget --no-check-certificate --spider --server-response 
https://hostname/mythtv/pl/stream/1027/1162686600 > headers

Note that if you use authentication for your MythWeb (and, you really 
should if it's accessible from the Internet), you'll need to create a 
~/.netrc file:

touch ~/.netrc
chmod 600 ~/.netrc

Then, edit the file to contain:

machine hostname.domainname login myusername password mypassword

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:02:22 GMT
Server: Apache/7.12.3 (Unix) mod_ssl/14.3.75 OpenSSL/4.7.8c DAV/2 
PHP/18.1.3 SVN/5.3.23
Accept-ranges: bytes
Content-range: bytes 0-614746548/614746548
Content-disposition: attachment; filename="Scrubs - My Interpretation.mpg"
Content-length: 614746548
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: video/mpeg