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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Sometimes windows files that have the wmv (or wma) extension are being
saved in the artefact_file_files table as mimetype video/x-ms-asf rather
than video/x-ms-wmv (or audio/x-ms-wma).

This means you can't add them to a video (or audio) block.

Also for some reason, which I'm yet to work out, sites  can have data
where a wmv video with mimetype video/x-ms-asf is connected to an
internalmedia block.

I'm not sure if they had the correct mimetype of video/x-ms-wmv in the
past and somehow the mimetype changed or whether the mahara system
allowed them to  connect files with mimetype video/x-ms-asf.


But as there can be bad existing data on a site it needs to be fixed up pretty soon so that more bad data is created.

Looking at a myportfolio site there were 11,200 internal media blocks
and 2,500 of them had a connection to a wmv file that had video/x-ms-asf
as the mimetype (about 1/5th)

So it seems to be more than an isolated incidence.

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: High
         Status: Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364609

Title:
  Problem with windows wmv files having filetype video/x-ms-asf

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Sometimes windows files that have the wmv (or wma) extension are being
  saved in the artefact_file_files table as mimetype video/x-ms-asf
  rather than video/x-ms-wmv (or audio/x-ms-wma).

  This means you can't add them to a video (or audio) block.

  Also for some reason, which I'm yet to work out, sites  can have data
  where a wmv video with mimetype video/x-ms-asf is connected to an
  internalmedia block.

  I'm not sure if they had the correct mimetype of video/x-ms-wmv in the
  past and somehow the mimetype changed or whether the mahara system
  allowed them to  connect files with mimetype video/x-ms-asf.

  
  But as there can be bad existing data on a site it needs to be fixed up pretty soon so that more bad data is created.

  Looking at a myportfolio site there were 11,200 internal media blocks
  and 2,500 of them had a connection to a wmv file that had video/x-ms-
  asf as the mimetype (about 1/5th)

  So it seems to be more than an isolated incidence.

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