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Well, FMJ uses the same API as JMF, so many JMF examples that are available online will work.

Pay attention to the log and see whether JMF is in the classpath, because if JMF is installed, you are primarily using JMF with some additions from FMJ. If you experince problems, you may want to uninstall JMF

This allows it to stream MJPEG video like many webcams do

FMJ has focussed so far primarily on playback, but encoding is next.

Able to stream media and transcode on the fly, including live media from capture devices.

It isn't ready, but in CVS you can try FmjTranscoder

Release ffmpeg-java-20070916-0351 now has windows compatibility.

Notes from Stephan Goetter:

Very good documentation how to setup build environment (msys and mingw) and how to build ffmpeg on windows can be found here:

http://arrozcru.no-ip.org/ffmpeg_wiki/tiki-index.php

The ffmpeg builts provided at http://arrozcru.no-ip.org/ffmpeg_builds/ have worked too, but some image codec/format were missing.

The next release of FMJ, fmj-20070914-1234, is now available for download.

Highlights:
- Support for many MJPEG IP cameras.
- Applet support for basic playback
- Timing improvements
- Improve video playback performance by reducing unnecessary copying of video image data
- Much better compatibility with JMF, if JMF is ahead of FMJ in the classpath
- Improved video capture device performance from lti-civil... read more

For testing, ffmpeg-java now includes a simple video player that does not use JMF/FMJ.

It is very simple for now, does not have correct timing or sound, but it is a start.

Get the latest ffmpeg-java release, and try something like;

java -cp ./ffmpeg-java.jar:./lib/jna.jar net.sf.ffmpeg_java.example.PlayerExample http://www.javasaver.com/testjs/jmf/anim/2005-11-26.mov

I've just released fmj-20070828-1154 of the FMJ project (open-source implementation of JMF).

The highlight of this release is that it now has pure Java ogg/vorbis/theora decoding, so that regardless of OS and native libraries, theora videos will always play with FMJ. The native libraries (implemented in a prior release) will be used if available, however, with better performance of course.

This theora support is achieved by using the LGPL jheora library from fluomotion.... read more

Release fmj-20070823-1047 is now available for download.

Highlights:
- integration of ffmpeg-java
- integration of theora-java
- license is now LGPL
- a number of bug fixes.

See the README for more information about getting FMJ to use ffmpeg, theora, and gstreamer.