Playing video in Java

Question

I need to play a video in my JFrame. I've looked around and I have installed the Java media framework and I've tried numerous ways, media panel doesn't seem to work and I don't understand Player. If someone could tell me an easy way to play a video inside a JFrame or even which methods to call that would be great.

( I also have the .avi file in the same directory as the .class and .java files )

Answer 1

JMF is basically dead.

I don't have first-hand experience with playing video with Swing, but here's a list of alternatives to JMF you might try. There are also a number of SO questions about this already:

• Video playback in Java ( JMF, Fobs4JMF, Xuggler, FMJ )
• JMF replacement

Based on those, it looks like Xuggler is the solution.

Answer 2

For the casual reader, Xuggler is now deprecated. Use Humble video instead: https://github.com/artclarke/humble-video.

On the other hand, you can have a look at the vlcj project. It permits you embedding a native VLC media player in a Java AWT Window or Swing JFrame.

UPDATE Feb 04 '16

• The Humble Video project seems inactive. There's no new updates since Janury the 3rd 2015.

• vlcj is still active. The last update was done on Feb 03 '16.