Author Topic: Identified as MPEG, named as .dat  (Read 13178 times)

JimPivonka

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Identified as MPEG, named as .dat
« on: November 07, 2006, 10:41:47 PM »
 ???   TrID has identified a series of files as MPEG, in its run.  But it has named these as .dat files.  I just caught this because a very large video, which I could not save, was found in the browser cache and I guessed it was the video I wanted by its size.   But when I ran TrID, it added the .dat extension.  Looking at the run window, I see that the program identified the file as a MPEG video file.

Why did it add the .dat extension then?

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Re: Identified as MPEG, named as .dat
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2006, 10:52:13 PM »
Right, somehow thewrong extension slipped in the <ext> tag of the video-mpeg.trid.xml def.
I have updated the def, and it will be included in the next update of the DB (within a couple of days max, probably sooner).

Many thanks for noticing & reporting that!
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Re: Identified as MPEG, named as .dat
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2006, 06:11:16 PM »
Just updated the defs!

Thanks again,
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