Ubuntu File Manager App

  1. Bug #1518332
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1518332

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Bill Filler (bfiller) wrote : Re: Media player not registered with file manager as a handler for .MP4 files....

I agree that you should be able to open video files directly in the mediaplayer-app, however mediaplayer-app is not a library and cannot "import" files and doesn't present this to content-hub as gallery does.

However, you can request files to be played by mediaplayer-app by using url-dispatcher with the video:///<url> argument.
Filemanager should directly call url-dispatcher for Video files (can use Qt.openUrlExternally()) instead of or in addition to asking content-hub to import them. This has the benefit of not doing a file copy as well as mediaplayer will play from where it is where content-hub makes a copy.

I'm opening a filemanager task for this bug.