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Title: FLV files stored as documents
Post by: rossp on March 17, 2008, 03:16:37 am

flv video files are listed under documents instead of the video section.

Ross

Title: FLV files stored as documents
Post by: StFeder on March 17, 2008, 09:14:25 am

Quote from: rossp on March 17, 2008, 03:16:37 am

flv video files are listed under documents instead of the video section.

For me they are still listed as videos. Have they been ever listed correctly for you?

Title: FLV files stored as documents
Post by: rossp on March 17, 2008, 12:58:03 pm

Quote from: StFeder on March 17, 2008, 09:14:25 am

For me they are still listed as videos. Have they been ever listed correctly for you?

First time I have used flv files. They play via an external player when I try to play them in MC.
So I dont think they have ever been listed as Video files. How can you change where MC stores its files. As far as I know MC decides what a file is.

Ross

Title: Re: FLV files stored as documents
Post by: JimH on March 17, 2008, 01:13:12 pm

They should play inside MC.  Try changing the "Media Type" tag in properties for those files.

Title: Re: FLV files stored as documents
Post by: rossp on March 17, 2008, 01:34:27 pm

Thanks Jim that did the trick, but why did they import as data files?

Ross

Title: Re: FLV files stored as documents
Post by: JimH on March 17, 2008, 01:36:39 pm

I don't know.  What happens if you try to play them now?

Title: Re: FLV files stored as documents
Post by: rossp on March 17, 2008, 01:46:24 pm

They play fine within MC. Looks like the import was the problem. I'll get another flv from the interweb and import it to see if it's ok now and not me being stupid.

Ross

Title: Re: FLV files stored as documents
Post by: rossp on March 17, 2008, 01:51:33 pm

Well I just saved an flv into an auto import directory (folder for windows users :) and it came in as a video file just as it should. I can't explain why the others came in as data files but it seems ok now.

Thanks for the help Jim.

Ross

Title: Re: FLV files stored as documents
Post by: Yaobing on March 17, 2008, 02:45:17 pm

Quote from: rossp on March 17, 2008, 01:51:33 pm

Well I just saved an flv into an auto import directory (folder for windows users :) and it came in as a video file just as it should. I can't explain why the others came in as data files but it seems ok now.

Thanks for the help Jim.

Ross

Was your other flv file also recently added to your library? If not, then there is an explanation: several builds ago we added code to make sure flv files are imported as video. Before that, some flv would import as data due to some DirectShow issues.

Title: Re: FLV files stored as documents
Post by: rossp on March 18, 2008, 01:32:46 pm

Yaobing, I think you've hit the  nail on the head there, they were old files which I didn't notice were in the library until I checked the document section.

Thanks for the help.

Ross