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[Kristina Hoeppner <1540654@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540654

Title:
  Proper handling of ".ogg" files

Status in Mahara:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Son has found that Mahara doesn't currently handle ".ogg" files
  correctly. We have separate mappings for ".ogv" and ".oga" in the
  artefact_file_mime_types table, representing OGG video and OGG audio.
  But we don't have a mapping for ".ogg", which is a fairly common file
  extension on the internet, historically used by OGG video and OGG
  audio!

  So, this gets passed to finfo->file() or mime_content_type(), both of
  which identify a ".ogg" as "application/ogg", making it inaccessible
  to either the audio player block or the video player block!

  This puts us in a bind, because none of our available methods (file
  suffix, finfo, or mime_content_type) can determine whether these files
  are audio or video. The command-line Unix utility "mimetype" *can*
  distinguish them, but it's preferable not to bring more command-line
  utility execution into Mahara because it hurts portability.

  Fortunately, there's an easy way out. According to Wikipedia, the
  ".ogg" suffix was used for both OGG video & OGG audio prior to 2007.
  After that, the Xiph foundation changed their recommendation so that
  ".ogg" should be used only for audio files. (See
  https://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/MIME_Types_and_File_Extensions for the
  up-to-date list).

  So, we should fix this issue as follows:

  1. As an immediate fix, put a mapping in artefact_file_mime_types
  mapping ".ogg" to "ogg/audio".

  2. As a longer-term fix, see if there are any all-PHP techniques (or
  maybe Javascript techniques we could use at the upgrade step?) to
  distinguish ogg/audio and ogg/video files based on their file content.
  (i.e., has anyone ported the "mimetype" utility to PHP?)

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