Chapter 7. Time-Based Media and the JMF: An Introduction

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • Time-Based Media

  • Processing Media

  • Audio Primer

  • Video Primer

  • What Is the JMF?

  • Java and Time-Based Media: A Short History

  • Media Formats and Content Types Supported by JMF

  • Levels of Usage of the JMF API

  • Programming Paradigms When Using JMF

  • Structure of the API

  • Time—A Central Concept

  • Bare Bones Player Applet—A First Applet Using JMF

This section of the book 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.

The section is broken into three chapters—this one, Chapter 8, “Processing Media with JMF,” and Chapter 9, “RTP and Advanced JMF Topics”—that follow a progression of simple out of the box ...

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