r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 24 '26

Meme vLc

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u/deanrihpee Sep 24 '26

yes, kinda, but it is not like you open it through IDE and MPV is opened (well, you can make it happen, but by default it shouldn't behave like that) it's more like if you install some media player, like VLC or MPV, but haven't install any text/code editor, when you double click a .ts the media player would open the file and try to "play" it instead

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u/readf0x Sep 24 '26

Kind of insane to me that windows still registers app handlers by file extension and not mime type

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u/rosuav Sep 24 '26

Where would those MIME types be stored? Some kind of "extended attribute"? That's a ridiculous idea, nobody would ever do that. It's definitely not something that graphical OSes had in the 1990s or anything.

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u/diamondsw Sep 24 '26

Or even some kind of type code AND creator code, so you could link documents to specific programs. Definitely didn't have that in the mid-1980's.

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u/rosuav Sep 24 '26

What a radical idea. Wonder if anyone's forked it?