{"id":1613,"date":"2007-03-04T15:11:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T20:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2007\/03\/04\/java-media-it-is-sad-but-i-dont-care-anymore\/"},"modified":"2007-03-04T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T20:12:47","slug":"java-media-it-is-sad-but-i-dont-care-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2007\/03\/04\/java-media-it-is-sad-but-i-dont-care-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Java Media – It is sad but I don’t care anymore…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebooting Java Media, Part III: Conclusion – O’Reilly ONJava Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris Adamson has put together a nice 3 part series of posts that explore the state of media support in Java. Long has this been a point of frustration for me and many of my colleagues (we tend to use QuickTime for Java but that is changing). I have been constantly on the look-out for a solution but one hasn’t been forthcoming. After reading Chris’ wrap-up, I have reached many of the same conclusions but I have a slightly different idea that I would like to propose.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of points that bring me to my conclusion:
\n1: I am not interested in Flash beyond what it can do with video. Flash does not have a desktop playback interface and it is not easy (as far as I know) to make a desktop app out of it. It is also seriously hindered without a plugin interface or the ability to playback other formats\/codecs.
\n2: AJAX is open, well supported and not proprietary for rich browser based interfaces. It is very successful and is pushing hard against Flash (if it weren’t for Flash Video, I think we would be witnessing Flash’s demise (at least in terms of interfaces)).<\/p>\n

What is missing is a truly open video format and player with the features that we all expect (codecs, wide distribution, browser integration, a plugin interface) that we can use with AJAX. QuickTime isn’t this, Real isn’t this, Windows Media isn’t this, Flash isn’t this..<\/p>\n

This is what I think is needed.. Forget about Java Media. The people we have relied on have failed us (Apple, Sun and IBM), we should give them an F and move on.<\/p>\n

Am I dreaming..? Can the mozilla-vlc-plugin become this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rebooting Java Media, Part III: Conclusion – O’Reilly ONJava Blog Chris Adamson has put together a nice 3 part series of posts that explore the state of media support in Java. Long has this been a point of frustration for me and many of my colleagues (we tend to use QuickTime for Java but that … Continue reading Java Media – It is sad but I don’t care anymore…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,18,22,13,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-java","category-open-source","category-streaming-and-multi-media","category-thoughts","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}