Re: [xine-devel] extensions

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hi siggi,

> > > You could use the config options to assign certain (wrong) file extensions
> > > to the correct demuxer, eg if you download an MPEG file named "movie.avi"
> > > from the internet and still want to play it.
> >
> > i don't think this makes any sense - it would be much easier to rename
> > the file in that case - and besides that, detection-by-content is rarely
> > used now as content detection is implemented in most demuxers (i still
> > wonder why it was broken in nearly every demuxer i looked at).
> 
> That doesn't help if you're trying the file from a web server that you can
> only access via http. (I admit that's an exotic case, but it happened.)

what are you talking about? why shouldn't detection-by-content work in 
that case?

cheers,

   guenter