Use GstDiscoverer for scanning?

[adamcik]

from gst.extend import discoverer could be used to have nicer API for scanning files.

[adamcik]

http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2011/01/17/back-on-transmageddon-and-new-gstreamer-features/ for example usage, we probably want to use the async version of this though. http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/gst-plugins-base-libs-gstdiscoverer.html for full API.

[adamcik]

This has some limitations with respect to version of python-gstreamer that supports it.

[jodal]

In other words, this is a thing for post-PyGI?

[adamcik]

Yeah, sounds like the easiest way around this.

[adamcik]

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-python/tree/examples/gst-discover

[adamcik]

Just to clarify for my own sake when I look back at this at some later time, there is an old and new version of the gst discover APIs. The old one, as shown in the link above will work on all gst/pygst versions we care about. The new API which is much more geared for our use case with respect to handling multiple files needs at least 0.10.31

[jodal]

Fixed in 0.16.