[gst-devel] media type detection

[Stefan Koch]

Hello,

I'm searching for a stream based library to convert various audio 
formats to raw PCM and vice versa.

So I tried gstreamer (versions 0.8.8 and 0.8.10).

Unfortunately the example for type finding shown at

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/section-typefinding.html

returns only error messages like:

"Error: Could not determine type of stream."

for ogg- and mp3-files. (mp3 with and without id3-tags)

The application "gst-typefind" that is automatically built during the 
make process returns a message with similar meaning:

"<file name> - No type found"

(I did run gst-register.)

Question: What could be the reason for this?

And btw.: How one can find out which formats are actually supported by 
gstreamer?

Regards,
Stefan

Debian GNU Linux/ix86