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what the problem about this short code?

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dolphin - 14 Apr 2007 10:43 GMT
import javax.media.Manager;

import javax.media.bean.playerbean.MediaPlayer;
import java.lang.String;

public class Player1 {
    MediaPlayer mp1 = new MediaPlayer();
    public Player1(){
    mp1.setMediaLocation(new String("file:\\d:\\music\\11.wma"));
    }
    public static void main(String[] args){
        Player1 player1=new Player1();
        player1.mp1.start();
    }
    }

it says that  Cannot find a Player for :file:\d:\music\11.wma.what the
problem?
Andrew Thompson - 14 Apr 2007 11:14 GMT
...
>    mp1.setMediaLocation(new String("file:\\d:\\music\\11.wma"));
...
>it says that  Cannot find a Player for :file:\d:\music\11.wma.what the
>problem?

MediaPlayer is based on JMF*, which only supports
the formats listed here.
<http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/formats.html>
WMA is not listed, WMA is not supported.

* JMF has been effectively abondoned by Sun, there may
be other projects that 'plug-in' to JMF and provide support
for newer/more formats - you'd need to search.

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Jussi Piitulainen - 14 Apr 2007 11:37 GMT
> import javax.media.Manager;
>
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> it says that Cannot find a Player for :file:\d:\music\11.wma.what
> the problem?

I don't know about media players, but I have a couple of suggestions.

First, importing any java.lang.* class is redundant in a bad way: it
doesn't affect the meaning of the program, but it leaves a reader of
the code looking for an explanation.

Second, never write

new String("foo")

for any literal "foo". Instead, write just

"foo"

and it will be a perfectly adequate String. Or if you are trying to
appear paranoid, consider something like this:

(String)new String(new String((String)((String)"foo").toString()))

Well, just don't.

Third, and this may actually help you, you can write an even simpler
test program and so eliminate some possibilities of error:

import javax.media.Manager;
import javax.media.bean.playerbean.MediaPlayer;

public class Player1 {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
    MediaPlayer mp1 = new MediaPlayer();
    mp1.setMediaLocation("file:\\d:\\music\\11.wma");
    mp1.start();
 }
}

Oh, and please, include the actual error message. Cut and paste, or
otherwise copy it _exactly_. Any paraphrase is likely to distort it
when you don't already know what the message means.
Lew - 14 Apr 2007 15:52 GMT
>> import javax.media.Manager;
>>
[quoted text clipped - 33 lines]
>
>  (String)new String(new String((String)((String)"foo").toString()))

Furthermore, URLs take forward slashes, not backslashes.

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Daniel Gee - 15 Apr 2007 09:01 GMT
They take both forward and back if you're on windows, Which you almost
definitely are if your path has a drive letter in it.
Lew - 15 Apr 2007 09:12 GMT
> They take both forward and back if you're on windows, Which you almost
> definitely are if your path has a drive letter in it.

So you are abandoning the "Universal" part of "Univeral Resource Locator" to
be Windows-specific.

By putting the "file:" protocol lead in the string, one is signaling that one
is using a URL, which requires forward slashes, according to RFC 1738.

> Some URL schemes (such as the ftp, http, and file schemes) contain names that can be considered hierarchical; the components of the hierarchy are separated by "/".

Windows's sloppiness doesn't excuse programmer sloppiness.

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