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When I click on a link to a video, such as MKV or OGV, it immediately triggers a download instead of allowing the VLC plugin to handle it.

It's similar to the behavior of Dropbox when ?dl=1 is appended to a URL.

I suspect this has something to do with Mime types. What can I do to change this behavior and stop immediate trigger of a download?

Hiawatha version: 9.3
Operating System: Arch Linux

Add the following mimetype to the Hiawatha configuration (/etc/hiawatha/mimetype.conf):

video/x-matroska                        mkv

This should do the trick. I've also added it to the default configuration. So, the next release will already have this.

Thanks!

Since you'll be fixing Mime issues in this next release, I'd like to note that the default mime type for AVI videos, video/avi, is not correct.

After commenting out the defective video/avi entry and adding a line

video/x-msvideo                         avi

AVI videos loaded fine with the default video plugin, and no longer triggered a download.

Some of the other media mime types may be defective; I didn't have any other media files on hand to test with.