- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 03:57:10 +0100
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > >Am I right that the Content-Type merely says the type of the container > >format, and says nothing about the format of encoded video(s) within? > > I believe this is correct. Certainly the MIME type Gecko looks for > where video is concerned is video/ogg or application/ogg. > > I would hope that container formats define how to figure out the types > of media streams they contain. If they don't, then that's unfortunate.... There's always a way to find out the subtypes, of course, but it can be quite complicated. E.g. the unix "file" command does not try, because it's more complicated than a fixed header in the file. -- Jamie
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