.m2t files don't get recognized as mediafiles

[Hugues Fournier]

Binary package hint: shared-mime-info

MPEG Transport Stream (M2T) is the most used transport for DVB-T. So most DVB-T raw recordings arem2t files.

M2T is handled by Ubuntu's default multimedia framework, Gstreamer.

However, its mime-type is not recognized by GNOME and double click leads to the following message:
"No application suitable for automatic installation is available for handling this kind of file."

share-mime-info has been patched upstream a few hours after the release of the 0.20 version in order to cope with these files, after a bug report on GNOME Bugzilla (#406196)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406196

The related patch (obviously only the second part) :
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/mime/shared-mime-info/freedesktop.org.xml.in?r1=1.226&r2=1.227&view=patch

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug, we will fix that for feisty

[Hugues Fournier (hugues-fournier)]

As the bug is not fixed in the last release, just this short message as a kind reminder (I know how much work you should cope with, so do not feel constrained ;) .. As it is fixed upstream, at worst this will be fixed in feisty+1)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the bug:

 shared-mime-info (0.20-0ubuntu4) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/091_from_cvs_mt2_are_mpeg.patch:
     - patch from CVS, list .mt2 as a mpeg type (Ubuntu: #89543)

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

Please reopen this bug.

For what I see in Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic *.ts are still mapped to application/x-linguist by /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml. The problem has been reported upstream two month ago (see ). But for 10.04 LTS we should fix it by a patch, if it is not fixed upstream by then.

As a workaround copy the attached file to ~/.local/share/mime/packages/mpeg-ts.xml and then update your mime-database with:
$ update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime

To trigger regeneration of failed thumbnails just delete them:
$ rm ~/.thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory/*.png

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

Sorry, I forgot the links to the upstream reports:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24690
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599347

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

Please ignore my 2 comments above.
I decided to open a new bug #502642

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

Wrong bug for my findings, sorry. See new bug #502642 instead.