JavaFX Media issues

[John Smith]

> So called arbitrary input stream support is among the features for the future.

Could somebody post back a reference to the jira, I've seen the feature referred to from other jiras, but I've never been able to find the actual jira reference for this.  Thanks!

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From: openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net [mailto:openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Richard Bair
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 8:35 AM
To: Felix Bembrick
Cc: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net List
Subject: Re: JavaFX Media issues

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>> *From: *Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:felix.bembrick at gmail.com>>
>> *Subject: **JavaFX Media issues*
>> *Date: *August 8, 2013 1:31:37 PM PDT
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>> <openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net <mailto:openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net>>
>> 
>> I am having a look at JavaFX media support and have a couple of questions:
>> 
>> 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!

This is correct. So called arbitrary input stream support is among the features for the future.

>> 2. I am unable to locate any reference to JavaFX Media in the 
>> JavaDocs for JDK 8 which I found here:
>> 
>> http://download.java.net/jdk8/jfxdocs/index.html
>> 
>> Is this just a glitch?

A glitch related to javadoc execution. FXMedia is still there.

>> 3. Is buffering of media something planned for the future in JavaFX?

What do you mean by buffering ? We have progressive buffer for http links. See MediaPlayer.bufferProgressTimeProperty

>> 4. What about live streaming of media content?

We support Http Live Streaming: MpegTS which contains H264 + AAC.