On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Andres Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> During the mid 1990's I played around with Java and so I am a little > familiar with it--however, I never did any video programming in Java. > One of my questions is whether Java is now the "preferred" way to do > this. I do not seem to hear very much about Java anymore so I am not > sure if it has grown up into something else. Is there any other > technology/language that I should consider to give me browser-based GUI > controls with video? > > Thanks for any council and direction you can give me... Java (and Java applets) is plenty capable of playing online video. Wikipedia uses Java applets to play video on their site. However, flash/flex is currently a much more capable platform for online video playback and is far more used (Youtube, etc). Flash 9 has a variety of efficient built-in video codecs to use. Decent video codecs are available for Java via the Java Media Framework (JMF), however, this is a separate download and install for your clients :-(. In short, if you want a good web-embedded video application, go with Flex 3/Flash 9. http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/ http://flex.org/showcase/ -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
