How can I start an external Media player?

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flack - 02 Jan 2006 20:42 GMT

Can you show me an API that allow me to start a video file in an
external Media Player in Windows as, for example, Windows Media Player?

Thanks.

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Stefan Schulz - 02 Jan 2006 21:27 GMT

Runtime.exec() comes to mind, other then that i am not aware of any
other way to interact with other applications (without them providing
some interface, for example a control channel via a socket)

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Roedy Green - 03 Jan 2006 03:52 GMT

>Can you show me an API that allow me to start a video file in an
>external Media Player in Windows as, for example, Windows Media Player?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/exec.html

fire up a command processor and give it the file name as an argument
and let it figure out the association and find the player.

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Vitaly - 03 Jan 2006 07:54 GMT

Get java-COM bridge (free) at
http://simtel.net/product.php[id]60701[sekid]0[SiteID]simtel.net

There an example for MS MediaPlayer is included.

Regards,
Vitaly Shelest

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Andrew Thompson - 04 Jan 2006 02:41 GMT

> Can you show me an API that allow me to start a video file

JMStudio (included in the JMF).

>..in an external ..

Why external?

> Media Player ..

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