Media Formats and Content Types Supported by JMF
The JMF provides support for a number of the most important and popular content types and formats in both the audio and video arenas. In the area of content types, that includes names such as QuickTime, AVI, Wave, and MPEG. In the area of formats or codecs, that includes MPEG (for example, MP3), U-law, Cinepak, MJPG, and H.263. Further, as witnessed by the history of the various versions of JMF, that support has continued to increase (for example, H.263 added in the most recent version).The two most important formats currently absent from the JMF are MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. These are significant omissions! However the JMF development team at Sun has set support for these two formats as its highest priority. ...
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