1. Preface
   • To the Reader
   • Who Should Read This Book?
   • About This Book
   • Appendices:
   • Feedback
   • Conventions
   • Multimedia Evolution
   
   
2. Why JMF Anyway?
   • Digital Audio Primer
   • Time to Squeeze the Charmin?
   • Audio Woes
   • Sneaking Through the Audio Backdoor
   • Streaming Through the Backdoor
   • JMF to the rescue!
   • Is JMF worth the risk?
   • Summary
   
   
3. JMF's Growing Pains
   • Growing Pains
   • Little guys to the rescue?
   • Examination of JMF ports
   • DirectShow
   • Intel versus Sun
   • Quicktime
   • Solaris
   • Runtime Summary
   • You're only as Good as Your Tools
   • Symantec Visual Café Setup
   • Visual J++
   • Installation woes
   • Summary
   
   
4. Everything Revolves Around Time
   • Time is Unrecoverable.
   • Better than a Timex?
   • Summary
   
   
5. Taking Control of the Situation
   • Break with Tradition
   • Equilibrium
   • Are You Listening to Me?
   • Evolution of a Controller
   • Swimming Downstream
   • Are you a good citizen?
   • A Closer Examination of Events
   • Finicky Controller
   • Dangers of a Used Car Lot.
   • How long does this last anyway?
   • Conclusion
   
   
6. Origins
   • Why a MediaHandler?
   • Being Pushy Isn't All Bad
   • Return of the Manager
   • Conclusion
   
   
7. AlohaJMF: A JMF Applet
   • Benefits of Object Orientation
   • Applets 101
   • Juicing up the Applet
   • Summary
   
   
8. Getting Control over Your Applications
   • Getting a Driver's License
   • Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, but Names Will Never Hurt Me
   • Gaining Control over Your Player
   • Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day
   • Summary
   
   
9. Multimedia Swing Set
   • The Pain of Configuration
   • Building Blocks
   • Filtering out the Riff-raff
   • Customizing the view
   • Audio Sampler
   • Gravity Always Wins
   • Monitoring Progress
   • Souping Up TurboView
   • Summary
   
   
10. The Next Generation: Java Beans and JMF
    • Battle for World Dominance
    • Trespassing onto a Bean's Property
    • Conflict Between Theory and Reality
    • Flexibility is Key
    • Outpatient Surgery for MultimediaPreview:
    • Information Booth
    • The Joys of Testing
    • Summary
    
    
11. Going Native
    • Preparing the Natives
    • Makefiles and Portability
    • Summary
    
    
12. The Art of Synchronization
    • Cross stream
    • Journey to the Center of the Player
    • Sticking Your Nose into a Player's Business
    • Mysterious Lists
    • Installation Black Magic
    • Looking Under the Covers of a DataSource
    • Speaking with a forked tongue
    • Sibling Rivalry
    • Trouble in Paradise?
    • Summary
    
    
13. The Multimedia Caption DataSource
    • Yet Another Markup Language?
    • Multipurpose Tool
    • Putting MCML to Use
    • The Origination of Streams
    • Navigating the Streams
    • Summary
    
    
14. MediaHandler Primer
    • What's the Big Secret Anyway?
    • Bark Worse Than its Bite
    • Head of State
    • Hitting the Breaks
    • The Player's Achilles Heel
    • Cleaning up the Mess
    • Summary
    
    
15. The CaptionMediaHandler
    • ControlPanelComponent Should Listen!
    • Text Never Looked so Good
    • It's all in the Threads!
    • Events are the spice of life.
    • A Whole New Class of Events
    • Compilation and Debugging Help
    • Summary
    
    
16. Grapling with the CD
    • The Emperor Has No Clothes
    • The Natives are Returning
    • The Joys of Win32 Multimedia Programming
    • MCI details
    • Decisions, Decisions
    • When is a Thread Truly Necessary?
    • It's all Down Hill From Here
    • Summary
    
    
17. The Ultimate Synchronization: the Marriage of Players
    • All of These Chapters for This Little Code?
    • A Player's Work is More Complicated
    • Ordering the Slaves Around
    • The Starting Block
    • What Could Have Been?
    • Summary
    
    
18. Meddling in a Player's Business With a MediaProxy
    • MediaProxy Overview
    • Single Stream Approach
    • MediaProxy Responsibilities
    • Installation Details
    • MediaProxy Management
    • Summary
    
    
19. Real-time Streaming
    • IP Primer
    • RTP
    • Class is in Session
    • RTP is a Chameleon
    • RTSP
    • Are you for Real?
    • Additions
    • Summary
    
    
20. A Real-Time Hybrid
    • Yet Another Manager?
    • Peering Inside a DePacketizer
    • The Easy Route
    • Dumping Out RTP Statistics
    • Find an RTP Server to Test on.
    • The Hard Way
    • Summary
    
    
21. Where is JMF Headed?
    • JMF 1.1 Provides Immediate Relief
    • Pure Java Speed Demon?
    • Will we See a Shipping Version of JavaSound in Our Lifetimes?
    • Will JMF 2.0 Lead Us to the Holy Grail?
    
    
22. Appendix A: Coping With JMF Errors
    • A Different Mindset
    • Cross platform Exceptions
    • JMF's Tonsils
    • Listening for errors
    • Generating Errors in Players
    
    
23. Appendix B: The Confused World of Multimedia File Formats
    
    
24. Appendix C: CD contents

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