[jira] [Created] (TIKA-3310) MP4 video detected as application/mp4

["Peter Kronenberg (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Peter Kronenberg created TIKA-3310:
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             Summary: MP4 video detected as application/mp4
                 Key: TIKA-3310
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-3310
             Project: Tika
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Peter Kronenberg
         Attachments: sample-movie.mp4

The attached file is an MP4 video.  When running _new Tika().detect()_ it returns _video/quicktime_.   But when actually running it through the MP4Parser, it returns a very generic _application/mp4_.

 

Looking at the code, it seems that the generic type comes about because the _majorBrand_ of my file is _isom_, which doesn’t match any of the desired values, so it defaults to _application/mp4._  Now, I know absolutely nothing about mp4 encoding.  But looking further, I see there’s a list of compatibleBrands, which in my case, includes _mp41_, which would match the expected type of _video/mp4_ .

 I coded this up so that if the major brand does not match one of the desired values, it checks to see if any of the compatible brands match, and uses the first one it finds.

 Is this a proper solution?



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