.mkv no longer considered kind "Movie".

Not sure what happened here, but all of a sudden Hazel is not recognizing .mkv files as Movie files anymore.

1) Spotlight still recognizes them as Movies. Doing a search for "kind:movie" finds the correct files (both .avi and .mkv in the same folder).

2) Metadata says "Matroska Video File", but I believe it's always said that.

I've rebuilt the spotlight index and reinstalled Hazel to no avail.

Any ideas?

After doing some further research, I think I found where the problem is occurring.

Older mkv's that I added more than a week ago and have not moved locations have a kMDItemContentType = "org.perian.matroska", which includes "public.movie" in the tree.

New mkv's and mkv's that I have moved have a kMDItemContentType = "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge804450", which does not.

Might have to do some info.plist digging to find out what changed.

Not sure if this is related but there was a new version of VLC released. Maybe you installed that?

I added a rule to deal with mkv's separately as they don't appear to qualify as video format. They appear as 'matroska video file'. This happened prior to VLC 2.0 as I downloaded Hazel a few weeks ago and had to add the 'matroska video file' to my rule in order to catch all video file types. I haven't looked yet but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a way to simply change the 'type' from 'matroska video file' to 'video' with some sort of terminal command. All in all, I don't think it's a Hazel issue as much as I think it's an OS X Lion issue. Am I wrong?

It's a function of what apps and Spotlight importers you have installed. If mkv files stopped being classified correctly, I'm guessing you uninstalled something which contained an importer for it or claimed that file type.

monsieurmac wrote:I haven't looked yet but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a way to simply change the 'type' from 'matroska video file' to 'video' with some sort of terminal command.

Maybe with the RCDefaultApp Preference Pane but I'm not sure how.

Btw, I just noticed nine identical entries for HazelHelper (3.0b17, on 10.7.3) listed under the Apps tab of RCDA and its the only app with duplicates there.