[thelist] Mime type for m4v file

Shawn K. Quinn skquinn at speakeasy.net
Mon Aug 7 22:05:02 CDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 07:45 -0700, Dominick Cancilla wrote:
> I'm having difficulty serving m4v files from my Web site (some people are
> receiving them as plain text instead of as video). Does anyone know what
> specific mime type an m4v file should be considered? I can't find a
> consistent answer online.

(In the future, start a new thread, don't hijack an existing one.)

It's video/mp4 according to my /etc/mime.types, since the "official
filename extension" for this content is mp4 (not that filename
extensions matter on the Web anyway).

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn




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