diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6cfd7b4..5edfe64 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Playing from HTTP(S) URL:
     asciinema play http://example.com/demo.cast
 
 Playing from asciicast page URL (requires `<link rel="alternate"
-type="application/asciicast+json" href="....json">` in page's HTML):
+type="application/x-asciicast" href="/my/ascii.cast">` in page's HTML):
 
     asciinema play https://asciinema.org/a/22124
     asciinema play http://example.com/blog/post.html
diff --git a/asciinema/asciicast/__init__.py b/asciinema/asciicast/__init__.py
index 726f9df..84051de 100644
--- a/asciinema/asciicast/__init__.py
+++ b/asciinema/asciicast/__init__.py
@@ -19,14 +19,16 @@ class Parser(html.parser.HTMLParser):
         self.url = None
 
     def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs_list):
-        # look for <link rel="alternate" type="application/asciicast+json" href="https://...json">
+        # look for <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-asciicast" href="https://...cast">
         if tag == 'link':
             attrs = {}
             for k, v in attrs_list:
                 attrs[k] = v
 
-            if attrs.get('rel') == 'alternate' and attrs.get('type') == 'application/asciicast+json':
-                self.url = attrs.get('href')
+            if attrs.get('rel') == 'alternate':
+                type = attrs.get('type')
+                if type == 'application/asciicast+json' or type == 'application/x-asciicast':
+                    self.url = attrs.get('href')
 
 
 def open_url(url):
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ def open_url(url):
             url = parser.url
 
             if not url:
-                raise LoadError("""<link rel="alternate" type="application/asciicast+json" href="..."> not found in fetched HTML document""")
+                raise LoadError("""<link rel="alternate" type="application/x-asciicast" href="..."> not found in fetched HTML document""")
 
             return open_url(url)
 
diff --git a/doc/asciicast-v2.md b/doc/asciicast-v2.md
index b1a49ec..39fb1cd 100644
--- a/doc/asciicast-v2.md
+++ b/doc/asciicast-v2.md
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Example file:
 [6.541828, "o", "Bye!"]
 ```
 
+Suggested file extension is `.cast`, suggested media type is
+`application/x-asciicast`.
+
 ## Header
 
 asciicast header is JSON-encoded object containing recording meta-data.