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Summary: A decent introduction, but weak on the info I wanted
Review: This book is more up to date than many of the other books on JMF. And the author does explain quite a bit about media timing, and the various classes involved, etc. And I even give him credit for taking extra time to spell out some particularly confusing areas, such as the many Sun classes and interfaces with similar names.However, the specific reason I bought this book was to learn how to manipulate the individual bits and bytes of audio and video, and the book did not provide a single JMF example. Granted, this would have required some low level discussions of video or audio formats, but at least one example of each would have been appreciated. Even more frustrating, the author mentions again and again how one "could" do this and "could" do that - and the chapter and section heades indicated that we'll eventually get there, but at the end he punts and refers to the Sun web site. As an example, he talks about how you could add a custom JMF Codec or Processor to add a simple reverb to an audio stream - this is mentioned several times - but when you finally get to where the example should be - he pulls the "well of course this would beyond the scope of the book" - LAME! So I felt that the book really did promise this, and then did not deliver. Fortunately I only paid $10 for it, and there was some useful info.
Rating:
Summary: A decent introduction, but weak on the info I wanted
Review: This book is more up to date than many of the other books on JMF. And the author does explain quite a bit about media timing, and the various classes involved, etc. And I even give him credit for taking extra time to spell out some particularly confusing areas, such as the many Sun classes and interfaces with similar names. However, the specific reason I bought this book was to learn how to manipulate the individual bits and bytes of audio and video, and the book did not provide a single JMF example. Granted, this would have required some low level discussions of video or audio formats, but at least one example of each would have been appreciated. Even more frustrating, the author mentions again and again how one "could" do this and "could" do that - and the chapter and section heades indicated that we'll eventually get there, but at the end he punts and refers to the Sun web site. As an example, he talks about how you could add a custom JMF Codec or Processor to add a simple reverb to an audio stream - this is mentioned several times - but when you finally get to where the example should be - he pulls the "well of course this would beyond the scope of the book" - LAME! So I felt that the book really did promise this, and then did not deliver. Fortunately I only paid $10 for it, and there was some useful info.
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