I don't know why FX Media isn't in the FX 8 API docs, but that's clearly an error. Please file a bug on that.
In the meantime, you should look at the FX 2 media docs, there isn't a lot of change from FX2 media in FX8. Buffering and streaming (HTTP Live Streaming) are both supported, as is playback from a URL. On Aug 8, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am having a look at JavaFX media support and have a couple of questions: > > 1. It seems that the only way to load media files is by specifying a source > such as a file path etc. This is not going to work well for me as all of > my application's content (which includes data, digital assets, media etc.) > is stored in a database on the server and is loaded through an IO stream. > Why doesn't Media support loading of files through a stream? That would > seem like a common use case to me! > > 2. I am unable to locate any reference to JavaFX Media in the JavaDocs for > JDK 8 which I found here: > > http://download.java.net/jdk8/jfxdocs/index.html > > Is this just a glitch? > > 3. Is buffering of media something planned for the future in JavaFX? > > 4. What about live streaming of media content? > > Thanks, > > Felix