Getting a list of registered file extents?

[Stirling Westrup]

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Sebastian Dröge
<sebastian at centricular.com>wrote:

> On Do, 2014-05-01 at 11:40 -0400, Stirling Westrup wrote:
> > Never mind, just after asking this, I remembered how to get the list. For
> > those interested, here's a command line to pull the list out of the
> > gst-inspect data:
> >
> > $ gst-inspect-1.0 | grep "^typefindfunctions: \(audio\|video\|image\)" |
> > grep -v "no extensions" | cut -d' '  -f3- | tr -d ' ' | xargs -d, -L 1
> echo
> > | sort | uniq | xargs echo
>
> You can obviously also get this via GStreamer API. But it will only
> include the known file extensions, not all of these are necessarily
> supported... and more formats than those file extensions could be
> supported.
>
> I realize that, but my manager doesn't want to present users with a media
selection box that shows *.*, as he would prefer us not to show files like
.pdfs which we know we can't display. So, for now, this will have to do.



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