[gst-devel] Some ideas on type detection
Wim Taymans
wim.taymans at chello.be
Fri Aug 18 22:35:18 CEST 2000
"Myers W. Carpenter" wrote:
>
> > needs rethinking:
> >
> > - type detection (too slow, need to load all the codecs)
> > - codec registry (same as type detection, is not scalable)
>
> Types are file/stream types (like avi and quicktime) and codec are
> codecs in the file (like Divx or Sorenson), right?
Yes, they go hand in hand, because for a given type, you need to find the
right codec. Right now there is a typefind function inside the codecs/plugins
that perform a type detection. The problem is that the typefind function is
available *after* the plugin is loaded.
>
> We have a space in /etc/gstreamer were we have a "types" file. When we
> add a new typewe run "gstreamer-register" and feed it a file that comes
> with the new plugin that has the mimetype, possible extentions, and
> something like an entry to the /etc/magic file that let's us guess what
> it is.
Right now, we can perform whatever code is needed to detect the type of the
file. Maybe we should add something to that to do the more common case of
a 'first 20 bytes will tell you all' type of detection.
> When you open a file/streamer, you also pass the mimetype (if you know
> it), or the opening function can look for an extention to the file.
> If it finds a possible match with the extention/mimetype it loads in
> the plugin for that type and has the plugin check to see if it's a valid
> file. If it doesn't match it looks for another match (or maybe loads
> all the plugins and trys them one by one).
That would make sense and would solve at least the common case.
> If no match then it tries all the "magic" entries to try and find out
> what it is.
/etc/mime-magic is quite good...
>
> For codecs you would also run "gstreamer-register" but with --codec or
> something. The codecs file would give infomation as to what file type
> it knows it's found it and the registry number it has it those files
> (ie. divx encoded files have the "DIV4" in their header). Each filetype
> would have it's own file. So /etc/gstreamer would look like:
Have to think about it...
Wim
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