dirkvdb
Curated list of MIME types
Hi,
I use ffmpegthumbnailer with pcmanfm on Debian unstable. Long story short, after a big update some days ago, they didn't generate thumbnails for AVI files anymore, and after a long hunt, I found that the "culprit" was shared-mime-info which changed this type from video/x-msvideo to video/vnd.avi, which wasn't listed in ffmpegthumbnailer's desktop file.
Although adding video/vnd.avi in the file was sufficient to fix the problem (which I noticed you already did in the master branch), I built a curated list of video MIME types, compliant with shared-mime-info 2.4.
Here are the steps I used to build it:
greping allvideo/MIME types from/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml, sorting them in alphabetical order- adding other video types (
application/, but notx-content/), also sorting them in alphabetical order
Compared to the current list, some types were removed, either because they're only aliases, or because they're not listed by shared-mime-info at all (so a file manager won't even ask a thumbnailer to generate thumbnails for them, just like I experienced with AVI files):
video/jpeg(the type is actuallyvideo/x-mjpeg)video/x-flc(the type is actuallyvideo/x-flic)video/x-ms-asx(it's actuallyaudio/x-ms-asx, a playlist format)video/x-ms-wax,video/x-ms-wmxandvideo/x-ms-wvx(aliases ofaudio/x-ms-asx)
If ffmpegthumbnailer is actually intelligent enough to read those playlists, choose a video file, and generate a thumbnail for it, then I guess audio/x-ms-asx could be added.
So this new list contains no aliases, nor unrecognized types. It should be easier to maintain.
MimeType=video/3gpp;video/3gpp2;video/annodex;video/dv;video/isivideo;video/mj2;video/mp2t;video/mp4;video/mpeg;video/ogg;video/quicktime;video/vnd.avi;video/vnd.mpegurl;video/vnd.radgamettools.bink;video/vnd.radgamettools.smacker;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;video/vnd.vivo;video/vnd.youtube.yt;video/wavelet;video/webm;video/x-anim;video/x-flic;video/x-flv;video/x-javafx;video/x-matroska;video/x-matroska-3d;video/x-mjpeg;video/x-mng;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-nsv;video/x-ogm+ogg;video/x-sgi-movie;video/x-theora+ogg;application/mxf;application/vnd.ms-asf;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;application/x-matroska;
For information, here is an analysis on the current list (in alphabetical order):
application/mxf mime-type
application/vnd.rn-realmedia mime-type
application/x-matroska mime-type
video/3gp alias of video/3gpp
video/3gpp mime-type
video/divx alias of video/vnd.avi
video/dv mime-type
video/fli alias of video/x-flic
video/flv alias of video/x-flv
video/jpeg non-existent
video/mp2t mime-type
video/mp4 mime-type
video/mp4v-es alias of video/mp4
video/mpeg mime-type
video/msvideo alias of video/vnd.avi
video/ogg mime-type
video/quicktime mime-type
video/vivo alias of video/vnd.vivo
video/vnd.avi mime-type
video/vnd.divx alias of video/vnd.avi
video/vnd.mpegurl mime-type
video/vnd.rn-realvideo mime-type
video/vnd.vivo mime-type
video/webm mime-type
video/x-anim mime-type
video/x-avi alias of video/vnd.avi
video/x-flc non-existent
video/x-fli alias of video/x-flic
video/x-flic mime-type
video/x-flv mime-type
video/x-m4v alias of video/mp4
video/x-matroska mime-type
video/x-mpeg alias of video/mpeg
video/x-mpeg2 alias of video/mpeg
video/x-ms-asf alias of application/vnd.ms-asf
video/x-ms-asx non-existent
video/x-msvideo alias of video/vnd.avi
video/x-ms-wm alias of audio/x-ms-asx
video/x-ms-wmv mime-type
video/x-ms-wmx alias of audio/x-ms-asx
video/x-ms-wvx alias of audio/x-ms-asx
video/x-nsv mime-type
video/x-ogm+ogg mime-type
video/x-theora+ogg mime-type
Regards,
-- Raphaël
