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4/8/2010

This function registers media type strings.

Syntax 

HRESULT RegisterMediaTypes(
  UINT 
ctypes,
  LPCSTR* 
rgszTypes,
  CLIPFORMAT* 
rgcfTypes
);

Parameters

ctypes

[in] Unsigned integer value that contains the number of media type strings in the rgszTypesarray. This parameter cannot be zero.

rgszTypes

[in] Address of an array of strings identifying the media types to be registered. None of the strings in the array can be NULL. This can be one of the values shown in the following list:

CF_NULL

0

SZ_URLCONTEXT

(L"URL Context")

CFSTR_MIME_FRACTALS

(TEXT("application/fractals"))

CFSTR_MIME_POSTSCRIPT

(TEXT("application/postscript"))

CFSTR_MIME_RAWDATA

(TEXT("application/octet"))

CFSTR_MIME_AIIF

(TEXT("audio/aiif"))

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_X_MSVIDEO

(TEXT("video/x-msvideo"))

CFSTR_MIME_X_MSVIDEO

(TEXT("video/x-sgi-movie"))
rgcfTypes

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

Return Value

Returns S_OK if successful or E_INVALIDARG if one or more parameters are invalid.

Requirements

Header urlmon.h, urlmon.idl
Library urlmon.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE .NET 4.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later