discoverer

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Overview

This example uses gstreamer's discoverer api.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/GstDiscoverer.html To detect as much information from a given URI. The amount of time that the discoverer is allowed to use is limited by a timeout. This allows to handle e.g. network problems gracefully. When the timeout hits before discoverer was able to detect anything, discoverer will report an error. In this example, we catch this error and stop the application. Discovered information could for example contain the stream's duration or whether it is seekable (filesystem) or not (some http servers).