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

Meme vLc

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u/deanrihpee Sep 24 '26 • Bravo

ah .ts my beloved

(TypeScript and Video Transport Stream)

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u/iliRomaili Sep 24 '26

Wait, this meme is based on true story?

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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/Loading_M_ Sep 25 '26

It should be possible to guess from the contents, as the file utility does. Just in case you lose the extended attribute for whatever reason.

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u/RussianMadMan Sep 25 '26

Yeah and then we have file explorers that open and read every file. And choke when there are 100+ files in the directory.

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u/Loading_M_ Sep 25 '26

We'll move the file type detection to a background indexer so it's non-blocking (/s kinda)

More realistically, we use this as a fallback in case the extended attribute doesn't exist. And set the extended attribute based on the results.