What does the value of the BUFFERING variable indicate of MediaPlayer?

Question

Hi,
I am trying to play a video(wmv) on a Windows Vista pc. The MediaView loads correctly: I see the black box the View appear, and I have print statements to let me know when player.play() is called. They print out with no Exceptions. I also print out the MediaPlayer.BUFFERING var. It prints as 3.0. What does this mean?
My problem is that the video is not playing.
Jman

Answer 1

Hi
MediaPlayer.BUFFERING is a status variable tha you can use to check the status of your player. As you can see on the [API page of MediaPlayer|http://java.sun.com/javafx/1.2/docs/api/javafx.scene.media/javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer.html] there are also MediaPlayer.PAUSED, MediaPlayer.PLAYING and so on.
The usage looks like this:
if (myplayerinstance.status == MediaPlayer.BUFFERING){
//do something
}If you want to check how much of the media stream has already been buffered you may use "myplayerinstance.bufferProgressTime".
Hope that answered your question on the BUFFERING value.
To find out why the video isn't playing you could use the callBack functions and print out status and bufferProgressTime each time a callback (myinstance.onXY() ) is beeing called.