JMF usage question

[Ted Holden]

I've ended up with a situation which positively requires Java, which I
have very little experience with, and am basically trying to have one
or more other controls in a browser applet which uses the java media
player and JMF. I've tried to simply add a TextArea widget next to
the media player in one of the standard examples they provide, but all
that comes up is the media player. I'd appreciate it if anybody could
tell me what I'm doing wrong here:





import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.lang.String;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.media.*;
import java.awt.TextArea;



public class SimplePlayerApplet extends Applet implements
ControllerListener {

// media Player
Player player = null;
// component in which video is playing
Component visualComponent = null;
// controls gain, position, start, stop
Component controlComponent = null;
// displays progress during download
Component progressBar = null;
boolean firstTime = true;
long CachingSize = 0L;
Panel panel1 = null;
TextArea textarea1 = null;
int controlPanelHeight = 0;
int videoWidth = 0;
int videoHeight = 0;

public SimplePlayerApplet() {
super();
init();
}

public void init() {
//$ System.out.println("Applet.init() is called");
setLayout(null);
this.setSize(900, 900);
setBackground(Color.white);

panel1 = new Panel();
panel1.setLayout( null );
add(panel1);
panel1.setBounds(0, 0, 350, 350);


textarea1 = new TextArea();
add(textarea1);
textarea1.setBounds(500,0,150,150);






// input file name from html param
String mediaFile = null;
// URL for our media file
MediaLocator mrl = null;
URL url = null;

// Get the media filename info.
// The applet tag should contain the path to the
// source media file, relative to the html page.

if ((mediaFile = getParameter("FILE")) == null)
Fatal("Invalid media file parameter");

try {
url = new URL(getDocumentBase(), mediaFile);
mediaFile = url.toExternalForm();
} catch (MalformedURLException mue) {
}

try {
// Create a media locator from the file name
if ((mrl = new MediaLocator(mediaFile)) == null)
Fatal("Can't build URL for " + mediaFile);

try {
player = Manager.createPlayer(mrl);
} catch (NoPlayerException e) {
System.out.println(e);
Fatal("Could not create player for " + mrl);
}


// Add ourselves as a listener for a player's events
// player.addControllerListener(this);

} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
Fatal("Invalid media file URL!");
} catch (IOException e) {
Fatal("IO exception creating player for " + mrl);
}


}



public void start() {
//$ System.out.println("Applet.start() is called");
// Call start() to prefetch and start the player.
if (player != null) player.start();
}

/**
* Stop media file playback and release resource before
* leaving the page.
*/
public void stop() {
//$ System.out.println("Applet.stop() is called");
if (player != null) {
player.stop();
player.deallocate();
}
}

public void destroy() {
//$ System.out.println("Applet.destroy() is called");
player.close();
}


/**
* This controllerUpdate function must be defined in order to
* implement a ControllerListener interface. This
* function will be called whenever there is a media event
*/
public synchronized void controllerUpdate(ControllerEvent event) {
// If we're getting messages from a dead player,
// just leave
if (player == null)
return;

// When the player is Realized, get the visual
// and control components and add them to the Applet
if (event instanceof RealizeCompleteEvent) {
// if (progressBar != null) {
// panel1.remove(progressBar);
// progressBar = null;
// }

int width = 320;
int height = 0;
if (controlComponent == null)
if (( controlComponent =
player.getControlPanelComponent()) != null) {

controlPanelHeight =
controlComponent.getPreferredSize().height;
panel1.add(controlComponent);
height += controlPanelHeight;
}
if (visualComponent == null)
if (( visualComponent =
player.getVisualComponent())!= null) {
panel1.add(visualComponent);
Dimension videoSize =
visualComponent.getPreferredSize();
videoWidth = videoSize.width;
videoHeight = videoSize.height;
width = videoWidth;
height += videoHeight;
visualComponent.setBounds(0, 0, videoWidth,
videoHeight);
}

panel1.setBounds(0, 0, width, height);
if (controlComponent != null) {
controlComponent.setBounds(0, videoHeight,
width, controlPanelHeight);
controlComponent.invalidate();
}


} else if (event instanceof CachingControlEvent) {
if (player.getState() > Controller.Realizing)
return;
// Put a progress bar up when downloading starts,
// take it down when downloading ends.
CachingControlEvent e = (CachingControlEvent) event;
CachingControl cc = e.getCachingControl();

// Add the bar if not already there ...
if (progressBar == null) {
if ((progressBar = cc.getControlComponent()) != null)
{
panel1.add(progressBar);
panel1.setSize(progressBar.getPreferredSize());
validate();
}
}
} else if (event instanceof EndOfMediaEvent) {
// We've reached the end of the media; rewind and
// start over
player.setMediaTime(new Time(0));
player.start();
} else if (event instanceof ControllerErrorEvent) {
// Tell TypicalPlayerApplet.start() to call it a day
player = null;
Fatal(((ControllerErrorEvent)event).getMessage());
} else if (event instanceof ControllerClosedEvent) {
panel1.removeAll();
}
}

void Fatal (String s) {
// Applications will make various choices about what
// to do here. We print a message
System.err.println("FATAL ERROR: " + s);
throw new Error(s); // Invoke the uncaught exception
// handler System.exit() is another
// choice.

}


}

 

[Andrew Thompson]

I've ended up with a situation which positively requires Java,

If that requirement is 'x-plat', you may get some nasty
surprises when using JMF. Some of it is not (x-plat).

..which I
have very little experience with,

Best group for (generally) Java beginners is described here

..and am basically trying to have one
or more other controls in a browser applet which uses the java media
player and JMF.

You provided an example, but your example also requires JMF
(which is secondary to this lay out problem), and I was not able
to compile it.

..I've tried to simply add a TextArea widget next to
the media player in one of the standard examples they provide, but all
that comes up is the media player.

You should substitute the player for something simple like a button
while you sort the lay out problem.

..I'd appreciate it if anybody could
tell me what I'm doing wrong here:

For the reasons above, not immediately, but I will
offer some tips on preparing examples..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/sscce.jsp>

And the Sun lay out tutorial...
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/using.html>

If you cannot solve the problem by doing the latter,
have a close look over the document on preparing examples.
You should be able to provide a simpler statement of the
lay out problem, and probably in less that 50 lines of code
(as opposed to over 200).

HTH

 

[Ted Holden]

If that requirement is 'x-plat', you may get some nasty
surprises when using JMF. Some of it is not (x-plat).

What exactly is x-plat?

Basically, all I need is somethinng which works and is reasonably
portable and JMF appears to satisfy that, IF I can get it to work with
other widgets on the screen at the same time. I'm still looking at
different ways of trying to do that but haven't succeeded at it so
far.

The only other approach I've seen to this sort of problem would
involve JavaScript and either separate Java applets or a Java applet
and the windows media player, but I can't assume all users will be
using windows.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

What exactly is x-plat?

Cross platform, or..

Basically, all I need is somethinng which works and is reasonably
portable

'portable' across platforms. It depends on the media types
(which you have thus far not specified).

 

[Ted Holden]

Cross platform, or..


'portable' across platforms. It depends on the media types
(which you have thus far not specified).

Basically just mpeg movie files, mpeg2 and possibly mpeg4 and for a
general purpose product if it oculd work on Windows and Apple machines
that would probably suffice, with Linux nice to have also.

Any reason not to think JMF would do that, or is there any other
possible way to go at the problem if it doesn't?

 

[Andrew Thompson]

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 01:49:46 GMT, Ted Holden wrote:

(JMF)

Basically just mpeg movie files, mpeg2 and possibly mpeg4

..and for a
general purpose product if it oculd work on Windows and Apple machines
that would probably suffice, with Linux nice to have also.

Any reason not to think JMF would do that,

You'd need to consult the document above and perhaps
run some simple examples.

..or is there any other
possible way to go at the problem if it doesn't?

I'm no expert in video media, sorry.