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jmstacey2000
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 Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 5:20 pm Post subject: MIME types and how do you do this? |
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I server some video clips on my website, and when a person clicks the file it opens their default media-player to stream the data, but I don't want that.
What do I set the MIME video one so that when a person clicks it it downloads to their hard drive via the windows downloader or their default downloader.
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vbgunz
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Why not zip your media and save a little space? Also, you can simply provide instructions telling them it is either best to right click and save the file because of bandwidth limitations if any or because its prefered for any reason... Good luck :)
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jmstacey2000
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You don't really want to zip video files. It doesn't do so well for quality :wink:
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So you wish to publish a variety of media such as .mp3, .wma and .avi, but when someone clicks on these types, instead of launching the users default application it automatically downloads instead? Interesting, I hope you find the answer to this...
BTW, does zipping media really tamper with the quality after it is unzipped?
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jmstacey2000
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At least thats what I've heard. They say that mp3 and divx files etc. are already compressed, compressing them more into zip supposedly some information packets could get lost, so I just don't do it.
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 10:55 pm Post subject: Re: MIME types and how do you do this? |
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| jmstacey2000 wrote: | I server some video clips on my website, and when a person clicks the file it opens their default media-player to stream the data, but I don't want that.
What do I set the MIME video one so that when a person clicks it it downloads to their hard drive via the windows downloader or their default downloader.
Thanks!
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Just remove references to mp3 and other extensions in the MIME table. That way, Abyss will send their MIME type as application/octet-stream. This can help in 50% of the cases.
But IE is the browser used by the downloader, it will ignore the MIME type and rely on the extension to "guess" the appropriate application to launch from the file extension.
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