MPEG4 files as "octet-stream" in gnome 2.6

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acoromi · Post by **acoromi** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:11 pm

Hi everyone!

I'm just updated to Gnome2.6, and my question is:

All my *.m4a files (encoded with iTunes on Windows) are now as "applicatio/octet-stream" mime type and Rhythmbox is not able to play it. Why??????

I has no problem with Gnome 2.4!!

Somebody knows what can i do to play this files in Rhythmbox??

Thanks

theturner · Post by **theturner** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 10:29 pm

Gnome 2.6 uses the new shared-mime-info from freedesktop.org for MIME type detection. Its also making shit with some of my AVI files, which are detected as RIFF files.
Make a bug report. Although i have no .m4a files, i guess it's reproducable.
You know, there are some reasons why gnome 2.6 is masked.

himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » Fri May 28, 2004 11:54 am

I have the exact same problem. I have tried mucking around creating mime-types for .m4a, but nothing happends except that Nautilus just keep on krashing. I guess we just have to wait for a new version of Gnome...

damscot · Post by **damscot** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 10:46 am

Hi,

I have the same pb... with my .mp4 extension.

I also try to create dummy extension (.test, .dummy) and associate gedit.
but the file is still not reconized by nautilus.
However the ~/.gnome/mime-info/user.keys seems to have the good mime description.

Any

to create working user define mime type is welcome.

Thanks,
Damien

WhiteKnight · Post by **WhiteKnight** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:48 pm

*touch*

Anybody must have a solution for this problem....!

Cheers,

wk

himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:34 pm

Is it just me, or haven't this problem been partially solved? Nautilus still identifies .mp4 as application/octet-stream, but Rhythmbox can actually add them to the library and play them flawlessly on my system!

WhiteKnight · Post by **WhiteKnight** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:22 pm

No, it's not just you...

But it seems, we all used to live with that problem...

dutchfrank · Post by **dutchfrank** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 11:21 pm

OK, the solution is really simple in gnome 2.8 (I assume 2.6 as well):

open file /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml

add the following entry to the file:

<mime-type type="audio/x-m4a">
<comment>m4a audio file</comment>
<comment xml:lang="no">ukjent</comment>
<magic priority="50">
<match offset="4" type="string" value="ftypM4A" />
</magic>
<glob pattern="*.m4a" />
</mime-type>

and then run the command:
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

and you will see the type audio/x-m4a type appear in the Nautilus browser

Frank

JoeBaldwin · Post by **JoeBaldwin** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:54 pm

dutchfrank, you genius! Nice one, been racking my brains on this all day...

omeyotl · Post by **omeyotl** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:23 pm

same here

Thank you so much dutchfrank. This one has been bothering me for a while now....don't know how I missed this post up until now. I thought it was a problem with Rhythmbox and not Gnome, so I guess I was looking for the wrong solution, hehe.

iom · Post by **iom** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:16 pm

i had a similar problem, mime types weren't recognized as well. the reason is i had no update-mime-database although the package 'shared-mime-info' was installed.

actually. it was corrupted. it contained no files and _no other package_ complained eventhough 'updating mime database' failed on _every_ emerge.
emerge shared-mime-info solved the problem.

MPEG4 files as "octet-stream" in gnome 2.6

MPEG4 files as "octet-stream" in gnome 2.6

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