play an avi video file in java swing [closed]

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I need to play an avi video file and add it to a jpanel. All I need to be able to do is to play from beginning to end of the video and then proceed with my program. I don't need any seek functions or anything like that. What is the simplest way of doing this? preferbly without using xuggler if possible

Answer 1

It easy to embed the VLC player inside a swing application using VLCJ. Here is a working example:

 public class PlayerPanel extends JPanel {

     private File vlcInstallPath = new File("D:/vlc");
     private EmbeddedMediaPlayer player;

     public PlayerPanel() {
         NativeLibrary.addSearchPath("libvlc", vlcInstallPath.getAbsolutePath());
         EmbeddedMediaPlayerComponent videoCanvas = new EmbeddedMediaPlayerComponent();
         this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
         this.add(videoCanvas, BorderLayout.CENTER);
         this.player = videoCanvas.getMediaPlayer();
     }

     public void play(String media) {
         player.prepareMedia(media);
         player.parseMedia();
         player.play();
     }
 }

 class VideoPlayer extends JFrame {

     public VideoPlayer() {
          PlayerPanel player = new PlayerPanel();
          this.setTitle("Swing Video Player");
          this.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          this.setSize(640, 480);
          this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
          this.add(player, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          this.validate();
          this.setVisible(true);

          player.play("http://174.132.240.162:8000/;stream.nsv");
     }

      public static void main(String[] args) {
          new VideoPlayer();
      }
 }