RegisterMediaTypes

Registers media types strings.

HRESULT RegisterMediaTypes (

UINT ctypes,	//Number of media type strings in rgszTypes
LPTSTR *rgszTypes,	//Pointer to array of media types to be registered
CLIPFORMAT *rgcfTypes	//Pointer to array of 32-bit values corresponding to rgszType array values
);

Parameters

ctypes

[in] Number of media type strings in the rgszTypes array. This parameter cannot be zero.

rgszTypes

[in] Pointer to an array of strings identifying the media types to be registered. None of the strings in the array can be NULL.

rgcfTypes

[out] Pointer to an array of the 32-bit values assigned to corresponding media types in rgszTypes.

Return Values

S_OK

The operation was successful.

E_INVALIDARG

One or more parameters are invalid.

Remarks

Media types are taken from the following:

Value	Meaning
CF_NULL	0
SZ_URLCONTEXT	(L”URL Context”)
CFSTR_MIME_FRACTALS	(TEXT(“application/fractals”))
CFSTR_MIME_RAWDATA	(TEXT(“application/octet”))
CFSTR_MIME_POSTSCRIPT	(TEXT(“application/postscript”))
CFSTR_MIME_AIIF	(TEXT(“audio/aiff”))
CFSTR_MIME_BASICAUDIO	(TEXT(“audio/basic”))
CFSTR_MIME_WAV	(TEXT(“audio/wav”))
CFSTR_MIME_X_AIIF	(TEXT(“audio/x-aiif”))
CFSTR_MIME_X_REALAUDIO	(TEXT(“audio/x-pn-realaudio”))
CFSTR_MIME_X_WAV	(TEXT(“audio/x-wav”))
CFSTR_MIME_BMP	(TEXT(“image/bmp”))
CFSTR_MIME_GIF	(TEXT(“image/gif”))
CFSTR_MIME_JPEG	(TEXT(“image/jpeg”))
CFSTR_MIME_TIFF	(TEXT(“image/tiff”))
CFSTR_MIME_XBM	(TEXT(“image/xbm”))
CFSTR_MIME_X_BITMAP	(TEXT(“image/x-bitmap”))
CFSTR_MIME_HTML	(TEXT(“text/html”))
CFSTR_MIME_TEXT	(TEXT(“text/plain”))
CFSTR_MIME_AVI	(TEXT(“video/avi”))
CFSTR_MIME_MPEG	(TEXT(“video/mpeg”))
CFSTR_MIME_QUICKTIME	TEXT(“video/quicktime”))
CFSTR_MIME_X_MSVIDEO	(TEXT(“video/x-msvideo”))
CFSTR_MIME_X_SGI_MOVIE	(TEXT(“video/x-sgi-movie”))

See Also

RegisterMediaTypeClass