[Virtualacorn-list] Can someone tell me . .

[David J. Ruck]

On 11/12/2018 11:22, John Woodhouse via Virtualacorn-list wrote:
> 
> After all this correspondence, I think I have figured out why this
> is happening.
> 
> If I <Menu> click on an .mp4 video file attachment in Pluto's
> Article Viewer, > Info shows the file to be Type "Data (ffd)" so that
> when it is copied into a directory it quite correctly shows it as
> being a Data file.

You don't have .mp4 in your RISC OS mimemap file.

> So Windows identifies it as a Data file and correctly adds .dat to
> the file name, which prevents Windows seeing it as a video file until
> it is truncated to its original  xxx.mp4 file name.

Windows doesn't do that, VRPC does. Once it's has the correct RISC OS
file type, you need to ensure VRPC's extension mapping turns back in to
a .mp4

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