Resets of the resolution can lock up the screen, to where the resolution window no longer fits the screen, so it can not be used to set another resolution size. You can not get to the edges of the app window to move it, or close it normally. If I remember right this could happen with BeOS as well sometimes. Trying different key combos I could finally escape and hide the app window hogging the screen. I am running the latest nightlies, so its not an old version problem.
Ran into problems trying to identify file types where a file labeled AAC at the end of its name was not recognized, and wouldn’t play. If a simple audio file changing the name to mp3 allowed it to work, but trying to get Haiku to recognize AAC’s were the same as something else seemed to fail. But it has been many years since my BeOS years, so maybe I was doing something wrong.
Haiku does not use file extensions to detect file formats. Instead it has a “sniffing” system based on the file contents. The result of the detection is stored as a file attribute, this way there is no need to rescan the file contents everytime.
You can use the FileTypes preferences to check the sniffing rules. You can use the "memiset -f" command to force rescanning a file (or all files in a directory). You can also view/edit the attributes manually with listattr, catattr, addattr, rmattr, which is the way to force a particular file type (I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve with that, however).
[quote=PulkoMandy]Haiku does not use file extensions to detect file formats. Instead it has a “sniffing” system based on the file contents. The result of the detection is stored as a file attribute, this way there is no need to rescan the file contents everytime.
You can use the FileTypes preferences to check the sniffing rules. You can use the "memiset -f" command to force rescanning a file (or all files in a directory). You can also view/edit the attributes manually with listattr, catattr, addattr, rmattr, which is the way to force a particular file type (I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve with that, however).[/quote]
The sniffing as you refer to it does not reveal it is a media file, and won’t play it if you try and open it with media player on a video or a sound file, but what I found interesting was changing the audio file to an MP3 extension in its name worked. Did not try it, as I remember trying it, on the video files by changing any of those those extensions. When I tried to clue it in using file types I failed, but I am way past rusty on using it after all these years off using BeOS and only sparsely trying out Haiku in the years since then. Of course being that much older doesn’t help either.
These AAC files are mostly generated from me using a youtube download asp in Firefox over many years.
Thanks for the post on this and I will see what I can do on it this weekend to straighten it out and help, if I can.