Mismatches between declared type and actual. (See graphic) Often there were differences among all three: publisher XML, PMC XML, and actual Media type.
Mismatches between filename extension and media type (see discussion). For example, movie files that end in ".doc".
Until October 2013, PMC was writing @mimetype and @mime-subtype attributes to newly received XML files based on actual filename extensions. Realizing that filename extensions are not reliable, they have stopped.
Around the same time, PMC implemented a new feature in its renderer, using libmagic, to accurately determine media type at render time, and use it to set the HTTP "Content-type" header.
Also now supports HEAD requests (facilitating easier discovery of media types in bulk)
But they will not retroactively fix the values in any source XML.