Video Import Restrictions in Songbird 1.6

Due to the lack of video codecs to playback a majority of common video codecs, the importation of video files has been serverly limited to a couple of file extensions based on the gstreamer plugins.

NOTE: Media import is determined by file extension only - no further processing is used to determine if the file extension really matches the media files actual content.

The current list of allowed video extensions:

Stock: (no additiona gstreamer plugins - rare)

- ogg/ogv

- wmv (windows only)

With the "qtvideowrapper" plugin:

- mp4

- m4v

- mov

With the "ewmpeg4dec" plugin:

- divx

- avi

- mp4

- m4v

- mkv

The following default stock video extensions can be overridden with a user pref set with a comma delimted value of preferred video file extensions:

"songbird.mediacore.gstreamer.videoExtensions" = "mov,asf,3gp";

For more details about the video import restrictions, see bug 19550 and bug 19553.