From 61011ecea0eb86f50813d39a9172e86d417c1c0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Trllo <43494761+iLLiCiTiT@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 09:53:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] use ayon api implementation of mime type

---
 client/ayon_core/lib/transcoding.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/client/ayon_core/lib/transcoding.py b/client/ayon_core/lib/transcoding.py
index b3958863fe..dd44d4a673 100644
--- a/client/ayon_core/lib/transcoding.py
+++ b/client/ayon_core/lib/transcoding.py
@@ -1519,12 +1519,24 @@ def get_media_mime_type(filepath: str) -> Optional[str]:
         Optional[str]: Mime type or None if is unknown mime type.
 
     """
+    try:
+        from ayon_api.utils import (
+            get_media_mime_type_for_content as _ayon_api_func
+        )
+    except ImportError:
+        _ayon_api_func = None
+
     if not filepath or not os.path.exists(filepath):
         return None
 
     with open(filepath, "rb") as stream:
         content = stream.read()
 
+    if _ayon_api_func is not None:
+        mime_type = _ayon_api_func(content)
+        if mime_type is not None:
+            return mime_type
+
     content_len = len(content)
     # Pre-validation (largest definition check)
     # - hopefully there cannot be media defined in less than 12 bytes