Video Player in RCP Application?

gmfpanda · **Video Player in RCP Application? -** 02-26-2009, 08:10 AM

Hello All,

I currently use QTJava with an AWT<-->SWT bridge to do video in my RCP application but the newer version of Quicktime (7.5.5 or higher) are buggy with QTJava API which seem unsupported.

So I am wondering if there are other toolkits/plug-ins that would allow me to do video with control ability. Standard stop/pause/play controls but also the ability to export a portion of the video being played or a single frame as a png/jpeg/etc image.

Thanks for any help on this!

Glenn

jsugrue · 03-03-2009, 09:37 AM

I just embed Media Player in a SWT Shell and let it do all the work. I guess you want a bit more than this? I'd be interested to see what suggestions are around too.
James

gmfpanda · 03-03-2009, 09:43 AM

Well I use QTJava now which works really well just a few minor issues and its also using the AWT <--> SWT bridge and I'd prefer a native SWT solution.

As for embeding the player, I'd prefer a bit more control such as jumping to time offsets based upon a link in my application, exporting user defined clips, etc. which QTJava can do but embeding the media player cant.

Not to mention QTJava can work on multiple platforms (a requirement for me), i'd assume you could do what your doing with different "native" players?

jsugrue · 03-04-2009, 01:08 AM

Just got this article in today on EclipseZone - perhaps it would be some help to you?

Video and Eclipse | Eclipse Zone

Regards
James

gmfpanda · 03-04-2009, 06:55 AM

Great add James, thanks.

Have you looked at QTJava API? It is quite good and is cross platform.

I am assuming what you are doing has to use the AWT/SWT bridge since JMC isn't native to SWT?