The Java Media Framework

-Dr. Michael “Spike” Barlow

The second major section of the book, Chapters 7, 8 and 9, covers time-based media (that is, video and audio) and the JMF—Java Media Framework, a Java API dedicated to the processing of time-based media.

Fundamentally, the JMF is an extension to Java for handling audio and video (audio and video being the two primary forms of time-based media). More rigorously, the JMF API (Java Media Framework Application Programming Interface) is one of the official Java Optional Packages from Sun Microsystems that extends the functionality of the core Java Platform. Included in 2D Graphics and Imaging on the Java Platform this group of Optional Packages are others that are covered in the book: Java 3D and ...

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