MediaPlay to play media from an InputStream

Question

I think there is a compelling use case that needs the MediaPlayer to play media from an InputStream instead of the protocols such as http, file, and jar which are supported by JavaFx right now.
If your JavaFX runs inside your browser and if you generate some audio on the fly and put it in a byte array in your local memory, there is no way you can play it. None of the available workarounds are elegant. If you attempt to save that audio into a file temporarily and intend to play it from the file, you would need to trouble your users with the security permission pop-up. If you create a webserver programmatically on the client machine, you would also need to ask the users for socket permission. If you try to save the audio into the javafx.io.Storage, you cannot access it as a java.io.File object, thus you cannot use the file:/// protocol anymore. Well, you could send the audio to a remote webserver somewhere and read it back through http, that works but it is plainly silly.
Above all, if the InputStream is supported by MediaPlayer, all other three (http, file, jar) would be automatically taken care of because all those three can be converted to an InputStream one way or another,
Also, before an InputStream hits the MediaPlayer, you can process it any way you want. For example, you could place an Ogg Vorbis encoder/decoder along the pipeline between the MediaPlayer and the media source. Then I believe the Ogg Vorbis issue will be resolved automatically.

Answer 1

I think that is not possible indeed. You can handle InputStream as well saving as a file and read that file long after save it. So the Media from MediaPlayer can read a file using source attribute.
But I agree with you. The possibilities to handle InputStream directly is more interesting, you can read from a internal file added in jar, can read from a Socket connection without the necessity to save to a file. You can read directly from a database record, so, that resource is more flexible
I think JavaFX media support aim is focused to read local resources unfortunately.