Android: MediaScanner marks 3gp file with video/mp4 mimetype

Question

I just noticed that MediaScanner marks 3gp file with video/mp4. I've searched about it in Google and found this link. It is written there that,

"The video camera marks videos that it creates with mime type video/3gpp. This is the actual correct mime type for 3gp video. The media scanner marks 3gp videos with the mime type video/mp4. It could be argued that the media scanner should use the more specific mime type of video/3gp, but technically 3gp is a kind of mp4, so it's not exactly incorrect to use video/mp4."

If you notice the date it was posted is 2009-03-26. When I checked it again on Android 2.3.4 it is still the same. Is there any plan of having a more specific mimetype for 3gp in the future?

Thanks, artsylar

Answer 1

We've just edited the MPEG4Extractor.cpp to set the mimetype of 3gp files to audio/3gpp or video/3gpp instead of audio/mp4 or video/mp4.