Other alternatives to JMF to open AVI files

The codecs I use for compressing AVI files are not supported by JMF. There me another simpler option like using an external player as all I need to be able to do is to open the avi file in the player and then makes calls to tell it to go to certain frames.
This is to enable me to sync up elevation data stored as distance/time with the associated avi file.
Anyone have any ideas as I have run out of them ?

juckky wrote:
The codecs I use for compressing AVI files are not supported by JMF. There me another simpler option like using an external player.. Yep. Desktop.open(File)
..as all I need to be able to do is to open the avi file in the player and then makes calls to tell it to go to certain frames.Nope. The Desktop method does not support that.
1) Write a codec for the AVI compression (and use it in JMF).
2) JavaFX maybe? Look into it and report back.

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