JavaFX Media issues

[Kevin Rushforth]

There is already bug filed to restore the FX Media APIs to the FX 8 API 
docs:

https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-32004

-- Kevin



Joe McGlynn wrote:
> I don't know why FX Media isn't in the FX 8 API docs, but that's clearly an error.  Please file a bug on that.
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> In the meantime, you should look at the FX 2 media docs, there isn't a lot of change from FX2 media in FX8.  Buffering and streaming (HTTP Live Streaming) are both supported, as is playback from a URL.
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> On Aug 8, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am having a look at JavaFX media support and have a couple of questions:
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>> 1. It seems that the only way to load media files is by specifying a source
>> such as a file path etc.  This is not going to work well for me as all of
>> my application's content (which includes data, digital assets, media etc.)
>> is stored in a database on the server and is loaded through an IO stream.
>> Why doesn't Media support loading of files through a stream?  That would
>> seem like a common use case to me!
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>> 2. I am unable to locate any reference to JavaFX Media in the JavaDocs for
>> JDK 8 which I found here:
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>> http://download.java.net/jdk8/jfxdocs/index.html
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>> Is this just a glitch?
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>> 3. Is buffering of media something planned for the future in JavaFX?
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>> 4. What about live streaming of media content?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Felix
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