PlugIns

PlugIns are a powerful feature of the JMF that allow fine control over the processing of media. Fundamentally, as shown by Figure 8.22, the PlugIn model breaks processing into five component stages that can be chained together.

Figure 8.22. Position of the various PlugIns in the processing chain.

The components that correspond to each of these five stages are

Demultiplexer— Splits media into its constituent tracks

Codec— Compresses or decompresses a media track

Effect— Performs special effects processing on a media track; a generic category for any form of manipulation of the media data

Renderer— Plays (renders) a media track such as video ...

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