Video Live-Stream issue

Question

Hi,
I'm not very familiar with jmf but i got it to play a local video file.
my problem is now to play a livestream, when i try to create the player it seems that the player waits until it got all data.
so the programm runs and it never comes to an end
the streaming server recognize it as a listener so it seems to get the data but will only play it when transfer is complete
any idea how i can play the stream?
try{
            MediaLocator ml = new MediaLocator("http://127.0.0.1/stream");
            DataSource  src = Manager.createDataSource(ml);
            src.connect();
            src.start();
}catch (Exception e){
mediaPlayer = Manager.createRealizedPlayer(src);

Answer 1

shrug I've never used the conveniance function createRealizedPlayer, I've always done it manually. With that said, I'm pretty sure that Player objects handle the connecting/opening of their DataSource themself.
Just positing a guess here, but I'd imagine that you cannot realize a player with an open DataSource...and as createRealizedPlayer is a blocking call, it just blocks until the DataSource stops sending data (and then it realizes and can play the DS by opening it itself). In the case of a live stream, it probably never realizes.
Replace your code with the following:
MediaLocator ml = new MediaLocator("http://127.0.0.1/stream");
try {
    mediaPlayer = Manager.createRealizedPlayer(ml);
catch (NoPlayerException e) {
    System.err.println("Player could not be created : "+e);
catch(CannotRealizeException e) {
    System.err.println("Player could not be realized: "+e);
catch(IOException e) {
    System.err.println("Could not connect Player to data source: "+e);