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Set of questions related to playing sound / video in java

There are some set of questions i wanted to ask related to Java Sound which are as follows :

  • Can i use xuggler with netbeans ?
  • If yes can anyone please tell the way out ?
  • What are the audio and video formats xuggler is able to decode
  • Is xuggler the best open source library to play audio and video in java ?
  • Is JLayer a good library to play audio files ?
  • Can i use JLayer to play video files ?

I want my program to play mp3,wav,mp4,3gp files (commonly used) which is the best library to use ?

Solution

  • From the top down:

    • Yes, what have you tried? I just installed Xuggler then added the jars and it worked like any other library would. There's nothing special you need to set it up.
    • As above, you'll have to be more specific over what's wrong. It shouldn't require anything special.
    • It depends, but basically anything ffmpeg supports. For more specific information see here.
    • If you're not doing any encoding / transcoding work and all you're doing is playing videos, I'd personally say no, it's not the best. It works on much too low a level, something like VLCJ would probably be a better option using out of process players to make sure it all works correctly. A bit of effort to set up but once you have it there you shouldn't have any problems stability wise, and it'll support pretty much any format out there.
    • Well, yes, but if you're using something like VLCJ already then that can handle everything like that for you.
    • Unless I'm missing something (correct me someone if I'm wrong on this) no.