I don't use Eclipse myself, so I'm not familiar with your particular problem. I do use Xuggler however, and have successfully used the JAR found on their website. So here's just a couple of quick hints. I apologize if I am telling you things you already know.
- You can find jar-builds for Xuggler here. Somehow they chose to hide the link on their website somewhat.
- There have been previous questions on StackOverflow, such as this one, regarding instructions to add a JAR to an Eclipse project, which will automatically update the classpath and include the JAR during build.
- JAR's are in a format that was extended from ZIP, as can be read here. It is unfair to say that JAR files and ZIP files are the same, but you could open a JAR file like you would a ZIP file and read (some) of its content.
- Xuggler clearly states this on their website, but I missed it myself, so I thought I'd mention this. The
xuggle-xuggler-5.4.jar
can be used on any platform. Depending on the codecs you will be using, you might need some additional libraries. To save some disk space you could usexuggle-xuggler-noarch-5.4.jar
and an appropriatexuggle-xuggler-arch-xxx.jar
as a replacement forxuggle-xuggler-5.4.jar
.