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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Add application/x-mplayer2 mime to kdelibs?
From:       İsmail_Dönmez <ismail () uludag ! org ! tr>
Date:       2005-10-17 7:06:36
Message-ID: 200510171006.37344.ismail () uludag ! org ! tr
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On Monday 17 October 2005 09:17, Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2005 22:25, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> > For what I know, both kaffeine and kmplayer install
> > application/x-mplayer2 mimetype and causing conflicts on distro's
> > packages. The protocol pnm is another one, but we have uri/pnm now.
>
> Just a point here that appears to have been overlooked: Why should
> application/x-mplayer2 even *exist*? Last I checked, MPlayer was a program,
> not a file format. Thus, there should be MIME types for the various formats
> it handles, but not for the program itself...

It's mimetype for Windows Media. See 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmp6sdk/htm/embeddingwindowsmediaplayer.asp . 
Also MPlayer got its name from the windows media player's (old one) 
executable name which is mplayer2.exe.

Regards,
ismail
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