MPlayer completion rules complete only specific files

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

Binary package hint: bash-completion

Why complete only files with specific extensions if eg. Flash Player caches files without extensions (FlashXXXXXX) and MPlayer can play can? Ridiculous.

I understand you want bash to be helpful, but if sb uses shell to call eg. MPlayer, doesn't he know what is he doing :> ? Lames keep using GUIs and do not touch shell if they're not ought to.

[dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)]

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[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek (liviopl-pl)]

Enter directory like /tmp while watching a video on YT. Pause it inside your browser to watch in way more responsible player like MPlayer.

Type as usual: mplayer Flash[Tab]

What happens? bash won't fill up the command with appropriate file name, because it's got none of expected extensions like mpeg, rmvb etc.

MPlayer plays FLV videos flawlessly and doesn't require an extension to be present as eg. FourCC technologies are being utilised to recognize codecs used to encode multimedia file.

bash even without help of additional libraries can recognize type of a file without an extension:

$ file FlashXX9kNLBj
FlashXX9kNLBj: Macromedia Flash Video

It would be great if completion rules would somehow use /usr/bin/file utility to require no extension at minimum.

[dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)]

https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=312648&group_id=100114&atid=413095

logged 312648 on the bash-completion project bug tracker - trying to link today, but launchpad is crashing

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Thanks for upstreaming.

[Brian Fuller (slink3r)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/661775

[Brian Fuller (slink3r)]

I actually put the wrong patch on here, it's the next one, and I'm not sure if it solves the auto-completion that was listed in here, the description seems a bit vague.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Looks like this already got fixed in bash-completion 1.3:

[ David Paleino ]
  * Complete on all files for mplayer's -dvd-device