[mythtv-users] MythGallery Display MP4s?

[Kirk Bocek]

Jeff Wormsley wrote:
> Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> I'ts been my general experience that software which works based on
>> what a file actually is often works better than software which uses
>> extensions to guess file types.
>>
>> Filename extensions are a legacy concept and deserve to die a horrible
>> flaming death in the annals of computer history.
>>   
> This may be true once you have opened a file, but how do you decide if 
> you want to open it in the first place?  The directory entries in the 
> file system doesn't tell you what the file contents are directly.  The 
> extension was intended for that purpose, so that you wouldn't have to 
> open every single file on your drive(s) and read a part of each of them 
> to find what you want, because that is terribly inefficient (i.e. 
> slow).  The problem isn't the extension, it is the applications and OS's 
> that allow you to save a file of one type with the extension of 
> another.  And that isn't likely to change, because who knows what types 
> of files (and their associated extensions) are going to come out tomorrow?
> Jeff.

In this case, all I want is MythGallery to display the file in it's browser 
interface. MythGallery is already configured to use mplayer to play movies.