Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > This can't be a Java issue - it must be the > design-by-committee-for-all-platforms-ever-to-be problem... > > I would love to see a good sound API in the style of SWT. > > Call it JavaAudio...
... and implement it on Harmony code, we'd be very receptive to patches and enhancements to ensure the Harmony code works well for you. Regards, Tim > Tor-Einar Jarnbjo wrote: >> Fernando Cassia wrote: >> >>> I'm still scratching my bald head thinking why hasn't Google embraced >>> desktop >>> java yet. Google Talk would be a killer app written in Swing / 100% Pure >>> Java. >>> >>> >> It's never stupid to stay realistic. There is no JavaSound >> implementation giving you enough control of e.g. the sound card >> latency to allow a usable telephone application to be implemented. >> >>> H*ck, there's even a pure-java mpeg4 implementation.... >>> >>> >> Which doesn't work for me. A few still frames are being shown and >> updated every few seconds and then the player hangs. Apart from that, >> due to other problems with JavaSound is it not possible to implement >> reasonable quality video players in Java. The JavaSound API has >> functions to read the current position of the audio playback, to sync >> the video accordingly, but the accuracy and correctness of this >> function makes it unusable. >> >> Tor >> >> > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
