It should be, since it's possible to simply double-click on *.swf files
sitting on your desktop and they will play.
I would suspect that you could use the java activation framework to execute
them very easily without even needing to do any native coding.
Although for resilience, you should probably confirm the installation of the
correct version and prompt your users with a link to the correct download
page if it's not installed already.
Regards, Noel.
On 7/12/07, Alwyn Schoeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Noel, for playing swf, do you think it would be possible to interface with
> the flash plugin for Firefox?
>
> On 7/11/07, Christie Davel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanx Noel,
> > I appreciate your input.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Christie
> >
> >
> > On 11 Jul 2007, at 6:06 PM, Noel Grandin wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I did a bunch of research into Java media stuff for a VOIP project
> > recently.
> >
> > My opinion (for what's it's worth) is that you are better off doing this
> > stuff in C++ using the platform's native APIs and then interfacing to java
> > with JNI.
> >
> > We do this with other libraries and it works pretty well.
> >
> > All of the java video libraries have generally poor performance,
> > particularly for compressed video where you really need MMX/SSE-level
> > optimization.
> > They are also almost universally either (a) abandonware or (b) very very
> > alpha quality.
> >
> > Regards, Noel.
> >
> > On 7/11/07, Christie Davel < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to view and record a video stream in a java swing app. This
> > > source is a video camera, connecting to a Mac/PC via an external TV
> > > tuner card.
> > >
> > > I don't want to use JMF because of the following:
> > >
> > > the app must run on a Mac or PC (JMF as far as I know
> > > doesn't run on Mac OS X);
> > >
> > > I think JMF as a framework died a few years ago.
> > >
> > > The best I managed to come up with is QuickTime for Java (QTJ). Any
> > > alternative Media Frameworks for Java out there that I can use?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Christie
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Alwyn Schoeman
>
> >
>
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