Phonon.BackendCapabilities

Synopsis

Static functions

• def availableAudioCaptureDevices ()
• def availableAudioEffects ()
• def availableAudioOutputDevices ()
• def availableMimeTypes ()
• def isMimeTypeAvailable (mimeType)
• def notifier ()

Detailed Description

The BackendCapabilities namespace contains functions to describe the capabilities of the multimedia backend.

static PySide.phonon.Phonon.BackendCapabilities.availableAudioCaptureDevices()

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static PySide.phonon.Phonon.BackendCapabilities.availableAudioEffects()

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Returns descriptions for the audio effects the backend supports.

Returns A list of AudioEffectDescription objects that give a name and description for every supported audio effect.

static PySide.phonon.Phonon.BackendCapabilities.availableAudioOutputDevices()

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Returns the audio output devices the backend supports.

Returns A list of AudioOutputDevice objects that give a name and description for every supported audio output device.

static PySide.phonon.Phonon.BackendCapabilities.availableMimeTypes()

Return type:list of strings

Returns a list of mime types that the Backend can decode.

See also

PySide.phonon.Phonon::BackendCapabilities.isMimeTypeAvailable()

static PySide.phonon.Phonon.BackendCapabilities.isMimeTypeAvailable(mimeType)

Parameters:mimeType – unicode Return type:PySide.QtCore.bool

Often all you want to know is whether one given MIME type can be decoded by the backend. Use this method in favor of PySide.phonon.Phonon::BackendCapabilities.availableMimeTypes() as it can give you a negative answer without having a backend loaded.

Returns true if the given mimeType is supported by the backend; otherwise, returns false.

See also

PySide.phonon.Phonon::BackendCapabilities.availableMimeTypes()

static PySide.phonon.Phonon.BackendCapabilities.notifier()

Return type:PySide.phonon.Notifier

Use this function to get a PySide.QtCore.QObject pointer to connect to the capabilitiesChanged signal.

Returns a pointer to a PySide.QtCore.QObject .

The capabilitiesChanged signal is emitted if the capabilities have changed. This can happen if the user has requested a backend change.

To connect to this signal do the following:

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See also

Notifier.capabilitiesChanged()