Base.typeFindHelperForBufferWithExtension

Tries to find what type of data is contained in the given gstreamer.Buffer, the assumption being that the buffer represents the beginning of the stream or file.

All available typefinders will be called on the data in order of rank. If a typefinding function returns a probability of GST_TYPE_FIND_MAXIMUM, typefinding is stopped immediately and the found caps will be returned right away. Otherwise, all available typefind functions will the tried, and the caps with the highest probability will be returned, or NULL if the content of the buffer could not be identified.

When extension is not NULL, this function will first try the typefind functions for the given extension, which might speed up the typefinding in many cases.

Free-function: gst_caps_unref

struct Base
static
typeFindHelperForBufferWithExtension

Parameters

obj ObjectGst

object doing the typefinding, or NULL (used for logging)

buf Buffer

a gstreamer.Buffer with data to typefind

extension string

extension of the media, or NULL

prob GstTypeFindProbability

location to store the probability of the found caps, or NULL

Return Value

Type: Caps

the gstreamer.Caps corresponding to the data, or NULL if no type could be found. The caller should free the caps returned with Caps.unref.

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Since

1.16