November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
848 pages
19h 59m
English
The JMF is a powerful API, supporting a high-level and uniform approach to controlling, playing, and processing time-based media. An equally important JMF strength is that it is part of the larger Java platform. The implication of this is that the JMF approach to time-based media can be combined with other features of Java; either from the core platform, or one or more of the other specialist APIs that extend the functionality of Java. This leads to programs that can combine time-based media with other media (for example, 3D graphics) in either traditional multimedia paradigms, or in new and innovative approaches that are only possible because of the common platform-independent glue that is Java.
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