Tue, 01 Mar 2005
QuickTime for Java
Chris Adamson, Quicktime for Java: A Developer's Notebook,
O'Reilly
This is the first of the Developer's Notebook series that
has come to Mstation. The idea is that they are no-nonsence
guides for deveopers ... stripped and to the point. The Intro
to this book even suggests that your knowledge of Java should
be pretty good otherwise ... Well, it's not nearly as unfriendly
as that might suggest.
Java fans will know that the Media Framework hasn't exactly
been the highpoint of the language -- too few codecs and facilities.
MP3 was even dropped in 2002 because of legal fears. To the partial
rescue came Apple's Quicktime crew with Biscotti which provided a
Java layer to make QuickTime calls and also an object oriented API.
The problem was that the docs had a QuickTime-centric quality that
made them not all that useful to Java people who didn't already
know QuickTime. This book sets out to remedy that.
This book takes you through examples of playback and editing
and includes special sections on audio and video. In the audio
section, for example, it shows how to read information from
MP3 and iTunes AAC files as well as coding a level meter and
building an audio track from raw samples. It's all interesting
and well put together.
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