[mythtv-users] MythGallery Display MP4s?

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Sun Jan 17 18:48:34 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 09:17:15AM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
> > Well I'm unhappy that's is a hacky work-around. I'd rather find a way for
> > MythGallery to recognize that extension.
> 
> I'ts been my general experience that software which works based on
> what a file actually is often works better than software which uses
> extensions to guess file types.
> 
> Filename extensions are a legacy concept and deserve to die a horrible
> flaming death in the annals of computer history.

    Unfortunately, opening up the file and looking at the magic number 
manually isn't terribly convenient most times. The same goes for altering
those magic numbers. So easily read and manipulated (by humans) file name
extensions still have a place.


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