You have been subscribed to a public bug: There is no magic number for matroska video in the MIME database. Matroska video files without extensions are not recognised. I have made my own solution, though. I created this file as /usr/share/mime/packages /delan-matroska.xml and ran update-mime-database:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info";> <mime-type type="video/x-matroska"> <sub-class-of type="application/x-matroska"/> <comment>Matroska video</comment> <magic-deleteall/> <magic priority="99"> <match value="440786851" type="big32" offset="0"/> </magic> </mime-type> </mime-info> More details about what I did to fix it here: http://azabani.com/28 The magic number for matroska video at 0x00-0x03 is 440786851 (big- endian). This should be included in Ubuntu's default MIME data; I don't use extensions with the belief that Ubuntu is smart enough not to need them, and detect using magic numbers. ** Affects: shared-mime-info (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- No magic number for matroska; mkv without extension not recognised https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/526275 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to shared-mime-info in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
