Fall back on mimetype "video/*" if unknown

[Mhnix]

By falling back to "video/*" on Android, the program should not try to open the stream using a browser as it does now (when the url does not start with "file:" ):

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(url), "video/*");
QtActivity.getQtActivityInstance().startActivity(intent);

[jackuess]

On my phone the browser after opening the URL almost instantly gives me the choice of openening it with a video player. Is this not the case for you?

The custom java code you are reffering to isn't used for anything else than file: URLs right now. All videos not streamed over RTMP is opened with QDesktopServices::openUrl() for which there is no way of manually setting the mime type.

Setting the mime-type to "video/" seams pretty ugly to me. The nice thing about opening in the browser is that (at least on my phone) the browser reads the Content-Type header returned by the server and creates a proper intent according to that. What is to say tha all video players that accepts "video/" can actually handle say "application/vnd.apple.mpegurl"?

[Mhnix]

Hmm, I had not tried the native browser... Opera Mobile and Dolphin Browser only wants to download. The native browser however works as you describe.

[jackuess]

Ah ok, didn't think of other browsers. My solution might not be that good then after all. I might try to let Pirateplayer read the Content-Type header and start an intent accordingly.

[Mhnix]

I thought you already knew the mime type since you know the "suffix-hint" (at least the pirateplay API seems to know)?

[jackuess]

A mime type is not the same thing as a filename suffix. Sure you could hardcode it, ie. look for .m3u8 in the url and set mime type to application/vnd.apple.mpegurl but reading the Content-Type header - as I suspect the native browser does - seams like a cleaner and more universal solution.