22.6 Playing Video with Media, MediaPlayer and MediaViewer
Many of today’s most popular apps are multimedia intensive. JavaFX provides audio and video multimedia capabilities via the classes of package javafx.scene.media:
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For simple audio playback you can use class
AudioClip. -
For audio playback with more playback controls and for video playback you can use classes
Media,MediaPlayerandMediaView.
In this section, you’ll build a basic video player. We’ll explain classes Media, MediaPlayer and MediaView as we encounter them in the project’s controller class (Section 22.6.2). The video used in this example is from NASA’s multimedia library3 and was downloaded from
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