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Recording movies in Java (Java Media Framework) A long time ago I looked over the JMF featureset and thought, "!!!HOW COOL!!!".  The JMF include enough parts so that, if my mind put it together right, you can record audio, stream audio over the network, record video, stream video over the network, participate in the video conferencing protocol (whose name I cannot remember, but is used by GnomeMeeting and other software), modify audio and video, and more.

Unfortunately it seems JMF doesn't get much visibility.  I suppose that's partly because it's an optional package, meaning it's a separate download and install.  Hence, a developer can't assume their customers have it installed.

Anyway ... here's an article introducing JMF use:

Record Movies with Java Media Framework (JMF)
Part 1: Introduction to JMF


(2005-07-29 15:17:00.0) Permalink Comments [0]

Awk-alike programming for Java This seems like a good hint, so I'd like to give it a little more visibility.

Java AWK - parsing csv-files in Java can be fun

The idea Marcus presents is that the REGEX support in Java improved greatly way back in 1.4, and it's now possible to do high quality text processing in Java.  His example is playing with CSV (or I suppose tab-separated) text files in a manner akin to what you do in a shell script.

I'll note in passing that there are several toolkits for dealing with CSV files in Java.  Plus the HSQLDB database package can read/write a CSV file directly as if it were a database.  But neither is the point of Marcus's blog entry, which is to point out that REGEX in Java is pretty good.
(2005-07-29 15:05:31.0) Permalink Comments [0]