Sound playback: no sound, abnormally high bitrate.

Question

I've been reading up on using JMF for simple sound playback all day, and I've seen countless examples that do the same thing I'm doing, but in every instance, I get absolute silence. Additionally, it seems that the read bitrate is higher than it should be, according to the control panel's properties dialog (e.g., 480Kbps for a 192Kbps mp3).
The code always goes something simple like this:
    Player player = null;
    try {
      MediaLocator ml = new MediaLocator(new File("BGM.mp3").toURL());
      player = Manager.createPlayer(ml);
    catch (Exception e) { System.err.println("BGM messed up"); }
    if (player != null) {
      player.addControllerListener(p);
      player.start(); //this does realize and prefetch
    }I put some debug output statements in my controllerUpdate function, and it is indeed realizing, prefetching, and starting playback of the file. I have tried this with both wav's and mp3s (I have the mp3 plugin installed in addition to the JMF 2.1.1e itself), and have always gotten the same result - MediaTime progresses too fast, roughly 2.5 times faster than it should (5 seconds for every 2 real seconds), and I get no sound.
At this point, after having tried at least 2 examples found online in addition to my own code, I'm convinced there's something up with my Java runtime in itself, not just my code... anyone have any experience with this kind of problem?
System Info:
OS: Windows XP Pro SP1
Java Version: 1.5.0_02
JMF Version: 2.1.1e (zip version [no performance pack], with mp3plugin added)
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Do you use it in an Applet ?
I'm also unable to play any sound with Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.xx the
plugin to all browsers nowadays.
You mentioned you used it on Windows 98 SE.
The old IE browser used the build in javaVM. It worked - just look at
the java consol and you see a lot of warnings and errors -, but in the
end it played video and sound.
The only solution I found is to use Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.xx. The
'automatic search for update' box must not be checked, otherwise it
will update to the newest Plugin and you face the same problem. If you
want to place an applet on your homepage, just use video only - until
now it works correctly on ALL PLATFORMS.
There was a Bug Report 6245070 where I was asked as well to give an
example a year ago, but this was all - no response at all. In this
applets I used
Content Type : video.quicktime
Video Encoding : h263
Audio Encoding : ULAW
not even mpg3!!
I tried to compile the whole JMF Version: 2.1.1e with J2SE 5.0 and
Standard Edition 6 Beta. At one version I changed all the
inconviences like the reserved words "enum" ..., and an other version
with old style, which is possible with Standard Edition 6 Beta.
It seem's the problem is not in the part you are able to compile. It
seems to me it is in the sound.jar api, but I really don't know - just
trail and error.
Conclusion only JRE lower and until version 1.4.xx will work.
It would be a pleasure to me if I'm wrong and there is a solution.