767106 - Some video extensions not covered by filepicker.properties

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Stephan Sokolow]

Since I already did Bug 767063 and Bug 767090, I thought I might as well complete the set.

Here are the video file extensions which you may want to add to the file picker's filter:

*.3gp, .3g2

In short, the variants of MPEG-4 for 3G and CDMA2000 mobile multimedia. I run across them from time to time and they're definitely in wider use than alternate AVI extensions like *.xvid and *.divx. (And at least at parity with *.rm and *.mpg)

*.amv

If you're including extensions like *.xvid, probably a good idea to include the pseudo-official extension for the Motion JPEG variant used by all the El Cheapo Chinese "MP4" players.

*.rv

While, technically, the extension for RealVideo files is supposed to be one of the two you already have (*.rm or *.rmvb), I see a lot of files that got a *.rv extension because people intuited that, if audio is *.ra, then video must be *.rv.

*.m1v, *.mpv

I've never encountered these, so you may not want to add them, but they're apparently alternate extensions for MPEG-1 video. (You've already got *.mpg and *.mpeg, so I thought I'd mention them)

*.mxf

This is more a suggestion to keep an eye on things, but if you're going to include *.raw in the image filter, you might want to include *.mxf in the video filter.

To quote Wikipedia, it's "a container format for professional digital video and audio media" and, if I understand the U.S. Library of Congress document I just read correctly, they recently chose Motion JPEG 2000 wrapped in an MXF container as one of their archival formats.