Java Media Framework (JMF) and ubuntu 9.10

Download and installing JMF

Down load the JMF installation from here

The install instructions don't work! But you can extract like this.

unzip jmf-2_1_1e-linux-i586.bin

Testing

To use initialise go into bin and

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so ./jmfinit

All the commands need this prefix because JMF uses an older version of vl4. To test

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so ./jmstudio

If you get this error

Exception in thread "JavaSound PushThread" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: amount of data to read does not represent an integral number of frames
at org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioTargetDataLine.read(PulseAudioTargetDataLine.java:152)
at com.sun.media.protocol.javasound.PushThread.process(JavaSoundSourceStream.java:790)
at com.sun.media.util.LoopThread.run(LoopThread.java:135)

You are probably using openjdk

update-java-alternatives -l
java-6-openjdk 1061 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
java-6-sun 63 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

Switch to the sun java

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun