Playing Movies in JAVA

Hey all,
This is a quick question:
I want to play a movie in an app I am making, I was wondering what classes I should research that I would use to accomplish this goal. I've obviously not done this before,
Thanx,
Kngus

Java Media Framework... http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf

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Hey,
Im searching for a way to play a movie with java (without using JMF or javafx, these are media players only?),
I want to play a movie in my app. how do i do this?

I don't know, but JMF is not as inflexible as you imagine it to be. Why not ask in the forum dedicated to JMF?
[http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=28]

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hi,
i am trying to play movie file(.mov or mpg or mp3) using java tv in linux plotform and also using jmf jar.
problem is while running appear black screen and getting exception or errors like
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Well...
I don't know how to load and play a video with JavaTV. But I've seen some posts telling that .mpg files aren't accepted by the JavaTV.
Some people said that I had to use .avi files and these .avi files, if they were converted from a .mpg file, must had been converted with the Cinepack technology, but I don't know how to do this.
If you find out how to load and play a video, I'd like to know, please send me an email or access my page and post there in the comments, so I can continue doing my application with a video.
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*# EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x7c911c48, pid=1864, tid=996*
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*# Problematic frame:*
*# C [ntdll.dll+0x11c48]*
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*#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp*
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My html:
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<head><title>PlayerApplet</title></head>
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</body>
</html>
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import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
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or
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1) However I do not want to move my itunes Music onto the flash drive, only my Movies, and want to keep my music on my hard drive.
Is this possible?
Yes
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Ansver i get : does not support

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