c++ programmer needs help with creating java media player
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c++ programmer needs help with creating java media player
I am a C, C++ programmer, and I need to create a java video player that I can launch from an html page. I will be doing this server side, on my slack/appache server.
I have found some source code, but either can't get the player to compile, or in one instance, it will compile, but gives me an error like this :
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError
I did a little research, and found this :
"You have an obsolete servlet.jar or jsdk23.jar in your classpath."
in a post somewhere.
I don't know enough about java to fix this.
here's the code :
Code:
/*
* @(#)SimplePlayerApplet.java 1.2 01/03/13
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import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.lang.String;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.media.*;
//import com.sun.media.util.JMFSecurity;
/**
* This is a Java Applet that demonstrates how to create a simple
* media player with a media event listener. It will play the
* media clip right away and continuously loop.
*
*<!-- Sample HTML * <applet code=SimplePlayerApplet width=320 height=300> * <param name=file value="sun.avi"> * </applet> * -->
*/
public class SimplePlayerApplet extends Applet implements ControllerListener {
// media Player
Player player = null;
// component in which video is playing
Component visualComponent = null;
// controls gain, position, start, stop
Component controlComponent = null;
// displays progress during download
Component progressBar = null;
boolean firstTime = true;
long CachingSize = 0L;
Panel panel = null;
int controlPanelHeight = 0;
int videoWidth = 0;
int videoHeight = 0;
/**
* Read the applet file parameter and create the media
* player.
*/
public void init() {
//$ System.out.println("Applet.init() is called");
setLayout(null);
setBackground(Color.white);
panel = new Panel();
panel.setLayout( null );
add(panel);
panel.setBounds(0, 0, 320, 240);
// input file name from html param
String mediaFile = null;
// URL for our media file
MediaLocator mrl = null;
URL url = null;
// Get the media filename info.
// The applet tag should contain the path to the
// source media file, relative to the html page.
if ((mediaFile = getParameter("FILE")) == null)
Fatal("Invalid media file parameter");
try {
url = new URL(getDocumentBase(), mediaFile);
mediaFile = url.toExternalForm();
} catch (MalformedURLException mue) {
}
try {
// Create a media locator from the file name
if ((mrl = new MediaLocator(mediaFile)) == null)
Fatal("Can't build URL for " + mediaFile);
/*
try {
JMFSecurity.enablePrivilege.invoke(JMFSecurity.privilegeManager,
JMFSecurity.writePropArgs);
JMFSecurity.enablePrivilege.invoke(JMFSecurity.privilegeManager,
JMFSecurity.readPropArgs);
JMFSecurity.enablePrivilege.invoke(JMFSecurity.privilegeManager,
JMFSecurity.connectArgs);
} catch (Exception e) {}
*/
// Create an instance of a player for this media
try {
player = Manager.createPlayer(mrl);
} catch (NoPlayerException e) {
System.out.println(e);
Fatal("Could not create player for " + mrl);
}
// Add ourselves as a listener for a player's events
player.addControllerListener(this);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
Fatal("Invalid media file URL!");
} catch (IOException e) {
Fatal("IO exception creating player for " + mrl);
}
// This applet assumes that its start() calls
// player.start(). This causes the player to become
// realized. Once realized, the applet will get
// the visual and control panel components and add
// them to the Applet. These components are not added
// during init() because they are long operations that
// would make us appear unresposive to the user.
}
/**
* Start media file playback. This function is called the
* first time that the Applet runs and every
* time the user re-enters the page.
*/
public void start() {
//$ System.out.println("Applet.start() is called");
// Call start() to prefetch and start the player.
if (player != null)
player.start();
}
/**
* Stop media file playback and release resource before
* leaving the page.
*/
public void stop() {
//$ System.out.println("Applet.stop() is called");
if (player != null) {
player.stop();
player.deallocate();
}
}
public void destroy() {
//$ System.out.println("Applet.destroy() is called");
player.close();
}
/**
* This controllerUpdate function must be defined in order to
* implement a ControllerListener interface. This
* function will be called whenever there is a media event
*/
public synchronized void controllerUpdate(ControllerEvent event) {
// If we're getting messages from a dead player,
// just leave
if (player == null)
return;
// When the player is Realized, get the visual
// and control components and add them to the Applet
if (event instanceof RealizeCompleteEvent) {
if (progressBar != null) {
panel.remove(progressBar);
progressBar = null;
}
int width = 320;
int height = 0;
if (controlComponent == null)
if (( controlComponent =
player.getControlPanelComponent()) != null) {
controlPanelHeight = controlComponent.getPreferredSize().height;
panel.add(controlComponent);
height += controlPanelHeight;
}
if (visualComponent == null)
if (( visualComponent =
player.getVisualComponent())!= null) {
panel.add(visualComponent);
Dimension videoSize = visualComponent.getPreferredSize();
videoWidth = videoSize.width;
videoHeight = videoSize.height;
width = videoWidth;
height += videoHeight;
visualComponent.setBounds(0, 0, videoWidth, videoHeight);
}
panel.setBounds(0, 0, width, height);
if (controlComponent != null) {
controlComponent.setBounds(0, videoHeight,
width, controlPanelHeight);
controlComponent.invalidate();
}
} else if (event instanceof CachingControlEvent) {
if (player.getState() > Controller.Realizing)
return;
// Put a progress bar up when downloading starts,
// take it down when downloading ends.
CachingControlEvent e = (CachingControlEvent) event;
CachingControl cc = e.getCachingControl();
// Add the bar if not already there ...
if (progressBar == null) {
if ((progressBar = cc.getControlComponent()) != null) {
panel.add(progressBar);
panel.setSize(progressBar.getPreferredSize());
validate();
}
}
} else if (event instanceof EndOfMediaEvent) {
// We've reached the end of the media; rewind and
// start over
player.setMediaTime(new Time(0));
player.start();
} else if (event instanceof ControllerErrorEvent) {
// Tell TypicalPlayerApplet.start() to call it a day
player = null;
Fatal(((ControllerErrorEvent)event).getMessage());
} else if (event instanceof ControllerClosedEvent) {
panel.removeAll();
}
}
void Fatal (String s) {
// Applications will make various choices about what
// to do here. We print a message
System.err.println("FATAL ERROR: " + s);
throw new Error(s); // Invoke the uncaught exception
// handler System.exit() is another
// choice.
}
}
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Any simpler examples of code to create a media player are also very welcomed. I will build this thing piece-by-piece if I have to, I just need to start with something that works.
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError is Thrown if an application tries to call a specified method of a class (either static or instance), and that class no longer has a definition of that method
check that you have servlet.jar and jsdk23.jar on your computer and that they are included in your classpath when you compile
try putting them in the same directory as your media player and
javac -classpath . SimplePlayerApplet.java
i'll try and get this working myself and i'll let you know how i get on
Last edited by dave_starsky; 03-09-2004 at 10:46 AM.
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