Transitioning to Java from Quicktime...

Hi :)
I am seriously thinking of transitioning all of my cross platform projects to Java from Quicktime wired media.
an examples:
http://www.siren.cc/siren/launch.html
http://www.fonovisa.com/fonoplayer.html
Will Java [Swing?] allow me keep custom shapes/skins and communicate with my php/mysql server ? How does Java behave cross platform ? Are there some cross platform Java examples similar to what I have done above ?
many thanks as I need to know more :)
g

the point is...that it is no longer enough :)
I need SSL,md5,Post, utf-8, sockets,File Upload, video chat capability, and a whole slew of other things that QT is never going to provide.....
QT is a dying/nearly dead platform anyway. I just want to make sure I can take custom skins with me.
Also, it appears that Java is going to support h264 playback without needing QT.
It appears that Java Swing would be a more powerful programming language than Qscript [QT programming language]. It also appears I can keep my php/mysql back end system. I am not keen on switching to Flash because Macromedia forces you to buy all of their products to make a complete system.
So, are there any good example of a java coded media player with a custom skin ?
make sense ?

Similar Messages

  • Photoshop CS5 won't open a PNG pct exported from Quicktime

    I exported a move to still from Quicktime Pro, using the PNG compression settings, and when I try to open it in Photoshop CS5 I get the error message "Could not complete your request because the PICT contains data that is no longer supported in this version of Photoshop." Photoshop CS4 has no such compunction. And I was able to open them in CS4 and recompress them and get CS5 to open them, but this is really annoying. I often have to make screengrabs of Quicktime movies. Looks like I will have to do it staight from within Final Cut and not use Quicktime to do it.
    I have included a still of the error message:
    And a still of the Quicktime compression settings:

    "I am curious. How can changing the the extension of a file format trick photoshop or software in doing something that it can not do.
    I thought that it did not have the engine to translate the data. So what happens to a file by simply changing the extension. Is the data altered ?"
    That's a real good question and something that's been a frustration since the introduction of OS X. Such behavior was never a factor in an Apple OS until Unix. Such nonsense was always part of Windows behavior. It seemed to me it was actually worse immediately after the transition from OS9 to OS X, then improved, now is very stringent again.
    I have thousands of Illustrator files (suffix .ai). I have been working with several other vector programs lately, including Intaglio, a Cocoa product. Intaglio refuses to recognize a .ai file, although it is nothing but a plain text file with proper PostScript code. If I save the file out of Illustrator as an EPS file (suffix .eps) Intaglio has no problem opening it. The difference between a . ai file and the same image as a .eps is only a subtle change in some of the PostScript comments in the file, but nothing that really changes the graphic data. So why does the program give an error message with the .ai file that it is an Unsupported File type?
    Even more perplexing, if I simply change the .ai suffix to .eps, Intaglio is perfectly happy with the file. It opens and displays perfectly. Nothing has changed in the file data by changing the suffix.
    This kind of behavior seems to be an interaction between applications and the OS. The application calls the OS to perform certain functions and the OS demands a particular convention of the file name, or it sends back an error message and the application stops at that point.
    Have you noticed that the OS asks if you really want to change a file name suffix? That's how insistent it is that the name be a certain type.
    TextEdit is a program with no graphic capabilities. If I try to open a PostScript file with it, it balks. (I don't want it to display the graphic page layout - I want to edit the content of the file) A PostScript file has mostly plain ASCII text that can be read and changed by anyone who is familiar with PostScript. (There also can be some long streams of binary image or font data. Such data can't easily be edited, but a programmer could locate it, remove it, or move it around in a text editor program). TextEdit will not open a .ai or .eps PostScript text file as text, unless I change the suffix to .txt. Older (OS9) editors have no such problem and other "programmer editors" ignore the suffix also.
    Programs should (and can) open and display (or reject) files correctly by the nature of the data in the file without any need to examine the file name.
    Apparently, some applications (Graphic Converter?) have decided to ignore the file name nonsense and deal with the actual file data, as they should just like OS9 and previous Mac Oses did. But OS X "conforming programs" insist on the strict Unix way of doing things.
    I have always felt there was some kind of passive-aggressive, arrogant insistence on this by the Unix/NeXT programmers who came with Steve Jobs when he returned to Apple. Early NeXT/OS X implementations of the Mac Desktop were very un-Mac-like and were eventually changed after howls of protest from the Mac community. But they never relented on the file suffix thing, apparently insisting that the human-readable file name was critical to the machine's understanding of the file type.
    All this nonsense is unnecessary as the very simple workarounds prove and very inconvenient for the user. There's just finger pointing and standing on principle and insisting on adherence to some pedantic specification, rather than operational effectiveness.
    Rich

  • Screen Recording from Quicktime.

    I cannot start screen recording from Quicktime. Every time I click on record or the triangle for options, the window underneath is selected. It's like my computer does not recognize tHas anyone else had this issue?
    I am running the latest version of OSX 10.7.3 and have this issue on my iMac and Air.

    Hi,
    Thanks for the reply.  All I did was enter a fade in at the start and a fade out at the end.  I didn't enter any transitions in the actual video.  The screen recording coming from QuickTime is H.264/AAC.  It just doesn't look right once it gets added into iMovie.  It seems to have something to do with the cropping too maybe as I have to select Fit in Frame in my project so that it doesn't get cropped out.  Even without exporting just playing my project in iMovie looks like poor quality without going to iTunes?
    Is there no way to add fade in/out in QuickTime then I wouldn't even use iMovie?  Thanks!
    rc

  • Is there any way to make fade transitions in movies using quicktime pro 7?

    is there any way to make fade transitions in movies using quicktime pro 7?

    thanks. i eventually found your discussion trace from a few years ago on this shubject--after i posted my question. i do have i movies--another program to learn--which i guess does have the ability to do fade transitions. i'll figure it out....
    vr
    dr

  • How do i uninstall java from my MacBook Pro running Lion?

    I would like to uninstall Java from my Lion OS running MacBook Pro. *it got installed a while back while running a Java program, and due to Fashback and other holes, I would like it off of my system, other than a complete re-install, how do I remove it?
    Thanks in advance.

    CT wrote:
    Uninstalling Java on Lion
    There's a lot more installed than what that article says. The Java installation package includes much more than just:
    /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/
    Take a look at the package with Pacifist.

  • Call java from ABAP

    JCo connectivity is used to call RFCs from Java. can i call Java from abap?
    thanks in advance.....
    regards,
    Sundararamaprasad

    Hi Sundar ,
             This link will surely give u an idea about calling java fro ABAP using Jco.
    http://www.thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_Netweaver_Java_Connector.asp
    regards,
    aravindh.

  • Should I remove Java from  my IMac?

    Should I remove Java from my iMac?  Heard  of security problem with Java and  wondered if I should delete it,

    MadMacs0 wrote:
    I've been going entirely on the almost universal statement that installing Lion does not install Java by default. I'm very aware of the fact that older versions of OS X actually rely on the use of Java for some system functions, but I've been told that is no longer the case. If that were so, then there is no need for any Java to be present, yet you say it is there and you aren't the only one who has told me that.
    But exactly how much Java is installed by default? Obviously not enough to use it for browsing. In the days of the Java 6 Preferences app, it used to alert you that Java was not installed and offer to do so.  What happens with standalone apps like CrashPlan in Lion that require Java, do they have enough, by default, to run?
    The only Java component missing in these OSs is the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Peruse those installations, looking in these directories, and be enlightened:
    /Applicatons/Utilities/->Java Preferences.app
    /Library/Java/
    /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/->JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
    /System/Library/CoreServices/->
            Jar Launcher.app
            Java Web Start.app
            JavaVersion.plist
    /System/Library/Frameworks->
            JavaFrameEmbedding.framework
            JavaScriptCore.framework
            JavaVM.framework
    /System/Library/LaunchAgents/->
    com.apple.java.InstallOnDemand.plist
    com.apple.java.updateSharing.plist
    /System/Library/Java
    /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/->
            JavaApplicationLauncher.framework
            JavaLaunching.framework
    to name a few, but probably not all the Java components installed with OS Xs. Then, stop saying Java's not installed, when only the JRE component is missing.
    There has been speculation from some that perhaps it migrated from an older system or that Lion was installed on top of the older system. There's also some confusion these days about what actually constitutes a "clean install".
    AFAICT, it's speculated wrongly. As for the clean install, I define it to occur when the user wipes the drive, installs the OS, sets up everything, and then installs all 3rd-party software. Then, the installation is clean. If there's any migration involved, then it's not clean. i've not done one for over ten years and my OSs started with 9.2->Jaguar->to the current three.

  • Convert a movie from Quicktime to MPEG4 in MPEG Streamclip

    I want to convert a movie from Quicktime (.mov) which I created in Final Cut Express to MPEG4 in MPEG Streamclip to be able to see it on my Samsung TV. The problem is that the uncompressed movie, comverted only from Quicktome to MPEG 4, stops almost every moment on my Samsung TV. I have connected an external harddrive in NTFS there via USB 2.0 (Samsung TV cannot play movies in HFS etc.). The uncompressed movies are bigger than 4GB in Quicktime.
    I got the following information from Samsung (in German):
    "Sie berichten, dass Filme zum Laden stoppen, die auf Ihrem MacBook Pro flüssig laufen. Bitte beachten Sie hierbei, dass der Fernseher hinsichtlich Rechenleistung nicht mit einem Computer vergleichbar ist. Weiters verfügt der Fernseher über einen USB 2.0 Anschluss, was die übertragbare Datenmenge ebenfalls begrenzt.
    Die allgemeinen Spezifikationen für Videodateien finden Sie im Benutzerhandbuch ab Seite 248:
    http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201112/20111208190112921/Web_GSDVBE UA_GER.pdf
    Auf Seite 251 finden Sie für MPEG4-Videos folgende Beschränkung: Bei "mehr als 1280 x 720: max. 30 Frames".
    Als Alternative schlagen wir Ihnen vor, Ihr MacBook Pro per HDMI direkt an den Fernseher anzuschließen, die Videos auf dem MacBook Pro abzuspielen und den Fernseher als Monitor zu verwenden. In diesem Fall entfallen die vorher genannten Beschränkungen."
    I ask here how to use MPEG streamclip (free version; I use 1.9.2) so convert my movies into MPEG 4 so that I cann watch it on my Samsung TV.
    I filled out "Bildrate" "30" but this did not work. I have chosen less quality but there are still - less - interruptions and I find it laborious to test different versions of less quality so that it might work.
    I ask you also because I want to create my movies to give it to other people via the internet (f.i. via rapidshare) but I need a smaller size of my movies and do not know all the different TVs my friends have. I cannot imagine that it is not possible to create a movie in MPEG 4 that cannot be seen in many TVs via an external harddrive?

    I know that I can do that also in FCE. It takes much more time to convert a movie into MPEG4 than to export it as uncompressed movie in QuickTime which I can use f.i. in iDVD to burn a DVD or watch it on my MBP.
    But I don't know the versions of TVs of other people if I want to send them the movie via internet f.i. via mydrive.ch etc. which have limited space if used for free. So which settings to choose for an output in MPEG4?
    For my one use it is o.k. if the movie can be seen correctly in MPEG4 on my TV but I can also watch it via my MBP on my TV via HDMI.

  • JNI (Java from C) -- multiple JREs installed, need to use non-default one

    Hello,
    I don't know how many Google/forum searches I must have tried -- I can't seem to find a solution to my problem.
    I am calling Java from C. We have two types of environments:
    (1) 1.3/1.4 mix, and
    (2) 1.4 only.
    The mixed environments are configured to use 1.3 by default. This configuration will not be changed. The original developer's code needs backported to the mixed environment, but it has been discovered that his Java code is not 1.3-compatible.
    Since the code is not compatible with 1.3, I need a way to bypass the default JRE setting and get JNI to start a 1.4 JVM. Is there a way to do this?
    Thank you for your help.

    My "solution" is a kludge. It attempts to compensate
    for what I thus far believe to be an apparent lack of
    functionality. I believe the functionality I
    described should exist in JNI so that little jewels
    like my "solution" are not needed. What I am doing
    is improper. Therefore, I respectfully disagree with
    you.Except that your OP suggested that if you could replace it with 1.4 then that would be suitable solution.
    So if that is a suitable solution and you can in fact modify the JNI code then that is a solution that meets all of your needs.
    Regardless however you will note that the "The Java Native Interface" book in chapter 7 provides a specific section which
    1. Specifically points out why you can't depend on a generic VM loading mechanism
    2. Provides a specific mechanism which is OS/Platform specific, for doing runtime loading of the VM presuming certain constraints are followed.

  • Java from Time Machine

    Hi all...
    Due to the recent Java update (From Apple), Java is disabled in web-browsers.
    Simple question is, how do I restore just the old version of Java from a Time Machine backup, without having to do a full restore of all my files?
    Thanks.

    You can't.
    MadMAC0 posted at https://discussions.apple.com/message/20107182?ac_cid=tw123456#20107182 that:
    Apple has posted (10/22/12) the approved solution for restoring the Java 6 plug-in:
    Java for OS X 2012-006: How to re-enable the Apple-provided Java SE 6 applet plug-in and Web Start functionality.

  • Problem in generate Java  from PL SQL package in Jdeveloper

    Hi
    i have problem in create java class from PL SQL package in JDeveloper.
    I use Database navigator of jdeveloper and right click on a package and choose Generate Java then in Jpublisher window choose my view Controller and accept other default values.
    I call methods of generated class in the Action of a button in my JSP page, but when I click the button it  throw null pointer exception !!! i fund one of generated method return null and it lead to this exception.
    protected DefaultContext __tx = null;
    public DefaultContext getConnectionContext() throws SQLException  {
    if (__tx==null){
    __tx = (getConnection()==null) ? DefaultContext.getDefaultContext() : new DefaultContext(getConnection());
        return __tx;
      public Connection getConnection() throws SQLException
        if (__onn!=null) return __onn;
         else if (__tx!=null) return __tx.getConnection();
         else if (__dataSource!=null) __onn= __dataSource.getConnection();
         return __onn;
    i try to generate class in Model project and create DataControl for that and use method action but noting change and i get null pointer again!!
    Jdeveloper Versino = 11.1.1.7.0

    Let me ask you another question: Why do you generate java from the package at all?
    Where do you want to call the package?
    Back to your question: you should see code like
        public void setDataSourceLocation(String dataSourceLocation) throws SQLException {
            javax.sql.DataSource dataSource;
            try {
                Class cls = Class.forName("javax.naming.InitialContext");
                Object ctx = cls.newInstance();
                java.lang.reflect.Method meth = cls.getMethod("lookup", new Class[] { String.class });
                dataSource = (javax.sql.DataSource) meth.invoke(ctx, new Object[] { "java:comp/env/" + dataSourceLocation });
                setDataSource(dataSource);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new java.sql.SQLException("Error initializing DataSource at " + dataSourceLocation + ": " + e.getMessage());
    in the generated code. This code look up a datasource (which you have defined e.g. on the Weblogic Server) by calling the method
    setDataSourceLocaltion("jdbc/HRConnDS");
    This look up the datasource nad stores it in the class variable.
    Timo

  • Mavericks from Quicktime doesn't want to publish vimeo in HD?

    Is there a way to set it up?

    maybe I wasn't clear enough.
    In Mountain Lion Vimeo export from QuickTime converted video to 720p
    if you had HD footage of course, but now on Mavericks QT vimeo export slashes resolution to SD 640x480...

  • Upgrade java from 1.2 to 1.5 on SunOS 5.8

    Hi,
    Can anyone help me to upgrade java from 1.2 to 1.5 on SunOS 5.8 ....
    Thanks
    G. Singh

    Can anyone help me to upgrade java from 1.2 to 1.5 on
    SunOS 5.8 ....Sure, download the installation file and run it, then follow instructions. If you need more help, I'd be happy to help for $150 / hour

  • Calling Java from Delphi

    Can ActiveX bridge used for calling Java from Delphi?

    Also trying to solve this problem, after creating the bean i packaged/registered it successfully, (tested the bean using beanbox, works perfectly) then tried calling it via createoleobject in delphi 7
    (*Code Snip *)
    Var
    v : variant;
    begin
    try
    v := createoleobject(Edit1.text); // my class name ie WorldPort.Bean (also tried WorldPort.Bean.1
    except on e:exception do
    showmessage(e.Message)
    end;
    end;
    (*Code Snip*)
    After this simple code failed i started backtracking , eventually after getting "Access Violation...etc in axbridge.dll" all the time. tried delphi "import activex control" got the same access violation.
    Decided to test the example from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/beans/axbridge/developerguide/examples.html........ they both crashed on execution (calc.exe and boundprop.exe).
    After this failed I tested these example classes on another machine, both crashed again.....
    Also tried this experiment in VC++ , after adding the class to the Toolbox , i try to drop it onto a form, once again access violation.**PS**
    ('You will need VC++ and the Microsoft SDK to build the dll, download c++beta for free from microsoft site it you need it')** and a simple cmd file todo the job would look something like this:
    echo - ** Build Java ActiveX Bridge **
    echo Make sure these folders exist in jre--> axbridge\lib and axbridge\bin
    cd\SDK\jre\axbridge\bin
    set path=%path%;C:\MSDN\Bin;C:\VisualC++\lib
    echo path
    javac WorldPort.java
    jar cmf Manifest.txt WorldPort.jar WorldPort.class
    "C:\SDK\bin\packager.exe" -clsid {162193C4-AD5C-4A06-9F88-A737AE9B43AD} -out "C:\SDK\jre\axbridge\bin" WorldPort.jar WorldPort-reg
    *** After running this cmd you will find the dll in bin folder and the jar in lib folder..***
    Must Read:http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/beans/axbridge/developerguide/index.html
    Hope some of this helps , if you have successfully created / installed/ used a "JavaActiveX" in Delphi , i would really like to try replicate it on my machine..

  • I installed Lion so why can't I get any sound from Quicktime?

    I installed Lion so why can't I get any sound from Quicktime?

    It's been a problem for some time now.  You can drag a photo from the open iPhoto window into the Contact photo bin, i.e. window to window.
    Send a bug report to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html
    OT

Maybe you are looking for