Re: Can JMF be webstarted?

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
13 Sep 2006 13:20:10 -0700
Message-ID:
<1158178810.660806.106350@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>
Daniel Dyer wrote:

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:28:41 +0100, Andrew Thompson
<andrewthommo@gmail.com> wrote:

Can JMF be deployed using webstart?

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* The page linking the test launch file (JNLP)
<http://www.javasaver.com/testjs/jmf/>

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Andrew, just tried this on my Intel Mac that has never had JMF installed.
I see the frame and in the top left corner, after loading, it has a very
small movie clip of what looks like clouds moving across some hills. Is
the movie clip supposed to fill the frame?


Wow! I had 'kinda' hoped that jar did not include
Win. specific classes, and might work on some *nix
boxes - but had never dared hope it would work on a
Mac.! Mac' is where the JMF is weakest.

OTOH - it probably comes down to careful choice
of format (the MOV's were made using the JMF classes).

OK, I just tried to resize the frame and the clip expands to fill it and
now I can see what it is.


Yes. Now this has gone beyond "one guy's
crazed ravings", I shall need to fix that.

...Possibly even do something about caching those
enormous media files. (I just blew the last of my
100 Meg download limit for this month - it's 28.8K
till October!)

..Where is that? Somewhere in Australia?


Yep. Bald Hill, NSW (just south of Sydney), looking
south over (the top of) Stanwell Park - the focus is the
cloud, which I only caught in the edge of the frame.

Thanks for the test results. :-)

Andrew T.

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