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sarge_chris





PostPosted: 2003-6-30 17:40:00 Top

java-programmer, JMF video Hi

I'm building a multimedia CDROM using Java and JMF for playing video,
audio, etc. on Windows only. I have an interesting problem and am
stuck as to why it's happening and how to resolve it.

Basically, everything is cool on my XP machine. But when I run the
software on earlier Windows (95/8/ME/NT) the video won't play, and I
get an error (not an exception) dumped to the console window saying
that a player cannot be created for the video.

Now I can understand JMF not being able to support certain video
formats, but why does it work on XP but not on the others? I'm using
the same JRE and JMF libraries on all machines, how can this be? Any
ideas or suggestions?

A couple of other related questions:

- if I have to convert the video to a more 'common' format, does
anyone know of any good (and free!) video conversion tools? I've had
a nose round and found WinMPEG, it works for converting AVI to MPEG
but don't seem to like converting the MPEGs I'm using to any other
format.

- the error I get from JMF is dumped to the console, why doesn't it
throw an exception to the standard error stream? can I make it? stupid
JMF!

cheers for any ideas

- sarge