January 2005
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 34m
English
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Preface
Java has been a huge success in many fields—distributed enterprise applications, mobile phones, web applications—but one field that it has clearly flopped in is media. A sound API, javax.sound, suffices for simple playback and mixing of a handful of old formats, and was added to the Java core (the classes any Java runtime must include) in Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.3. The optional package for media, Java Media Framework (JMF), fared much worse. After two releases, a 1.0 that provided only playback and a 2.0 that added streaming, transcoding, and some lower-level access, the product was slipped into maintenance mode and has seen little attention since 1999. In fact, the most monumental change to JMF in this time was the loss of a feature: MP3 support was removed in 2002, due to licensing concerns. Making things worse, JMF’s all-Java version had weak support for popular formats and codecs. Native editions could play more media, but Sun initially created versions only for Windows and Solaris, later providing minimal support to a third-party Linux port and absolutely no support for a Mac version. Setting aside the dubious premise of Solaris as a media production OS, this effectively made JMF practical only on Windows, eliminating Java’s cross-platform advantage.
Enter QuickTime, a multimedia framework originally introduced by Apple for the (“Classic”) Mac OS in late 1991. QuickTime defines both a file format (the QuickTime .mov format) and many APIs for working with time-based ...
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