Squashed commit of the following:

commit f81bb1dac5ef107bb0d7d5d756fb1ffa532ba2cc
Author: Andreas Huber <andih@google.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 11 14:55:56 2010 -0800

    Support for duration metadata, midi and ogg-vorbis files (in mediascanner)

commit 0b1385a0dc156ce27985a1ff757c4c142fd7ec39
Author: Andreas Huber <andih@google.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 11 14:20:45 2010 -0800

    Refactor meta data logic. Container specific metadata is now also returned by the MediaExtractor.

commit f9818dfac39c96e5fefe8c8295e60580692d5990
Author: Andreas Huber <andih@google.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 8 14:26:09 2010 -0800

    A first pass at supporting metadata through ID3 tags.

commit 476e9e253633336ab790f943e2d6c0cd8991d76a
Author: Andreas Huber <andih@google.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 7 15:48:44 2010 -0800

    Initial checkin of ID3 (V2.2 and V2.3) parser for use in stagefright.

related-to-bug: 2295456
diff --git a/media/libstagefright/DataSource.cpp b/media/libstagefright/DataSource.cpp
index 2a6dbc4..741e5e00 100644
--- a/media/libstagefright/DataSource.cpp
+++ b/media/libstagefright/DataSource.cpp
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@
 #include "include/MPEG4Extractor.h"
 #include "include/WAVExtractor.h"
 
+#include <media/stagefright/CachingDataSource.h>
 #include <media/stagefright/DataSource.h>
+#include <media/stagefright/FileSource.h>
+#include <media/stagefright/HTTPDataSource.h>
 #include <media/stagefright/MediaErrors.h>
 #include <utils/String8.h>
 
@@ -91,4 +94,24 @@
     RegisterSniffer(SniffWAV);
 }
 
+// static
+sp<DataSource> DataSource::CreateFromURI(const char *uri) {
+    sp<DataSource> source;
+    if (!strncasecmp("file://", uri, 7)) {
+        source = new FileSource(uri + 7);
+    } else if (!strncasecmp("http://", uri, 7)) {
+        source = new HTTPDataSource(uri);
+        source = new CachingDataSource(source, 64 * 1024, 10);
+    } else {
+        // Assume it's a filename.
+        source = new FileSource(uri);
+    }
+
+    if (source == NULL || source->initCheck() != OK) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    return source;
+}
+
 }  // namespace android