Java™ Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization
by Alejandro Terrazas, John Ostuni, Michael Barlow
Extending the JMF
Although the JMF provides support for an impressive number of formats (codecs), content types, and protocols, its coverage isn't complete. Although Sun's JMF team has pledged to support new open standard codecs and other similar advances in the area of time-based media, there will continue to be gaps between the coverage of the distributed JMF and the totality of time-based media. Several reasons for this difference are as follows:
Lag— Newer standards (for example, MPEG-4) can take some time to be implemented efficiency, tested fully, and brought into the JMF stable.
Proprietary— JMF is a free, open-standard with several complete implementations. The JMF couldn't be free and truly platform independent if it were encumbered by ...
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