TypeFindFactory

These functions allow querying information about registered typefind functions.

How to create and register these functions is described in the section <link linkend="gstreamer-Writing-typefind-functions"> "Writing typefind functions"</link>.

The following example shows how to write a very simple typefinder that identifies the given data. You can get quite a bit more complicated than that though.

  typedef struct {
    guint8 *data;
    guint size;
    guint probability;
    GstCaps *data;
  } MyTypeFind;
  static void
  my_peek (gpointer data, gint64 offset, guint size)
  {
    MyTypeFind *find = (MyTypeFind *) data;
    if (offset >= 0 && offset + size <= find->size) {
      return find->data + offset;
    }
    return NULL;
  }
  static void
  my_suggest (gpointer data, guint probability, GstCaps *caps)
  {
    MyTypeFind *find = (MyTypeFind *) data;
    if (probability > find->probability) {
      find->probability = probability;
      gst_caps_replace (&find->caps, caps);
    }
  }
  static GstCaps *
  find_type (guint8 *data, guint size)
  {
    GList *walk, *type_list;
    MyTypeFind find = {data, size, 0, NULL};
    GstTypeFind gst_find = {my_peek, my_suggest, &find, };
    walk = type_list = gst_type_find_factory_get_list ();
    while (walk) {
      GstTypeFindFactory *factory = GST_TYPE_FIND_FACTORY (walk->data);
      walk = g_list_next (walk)
      gst_type_find_factory_call_function (factory, &gst_find);
    }
    g_list_free (type_list);
    return find.caps;
  };