Video Capturing with JMF

Dear friends
I want to develop a program which can capture video from my web cam.
(resolution 640x480 frame rate 20 frames/second) with JMF.
If you have any suggestions and references please help me with this.
Thank you in advance.

ac09 wrote:
..If you have any suggestions..Read the posts to the [JMF forum|http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=28] where this topic has been discussed many (many) times. Make future posts re. JMF to the JMF forum.
.. and references .. JMF [Code Samples and Apps|http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/reference/codesamples/index.html] .
Thank you in advance.No worries.

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