Module javafx.media
Package javafx.scene.media

Class Media

  • public final class Media
extends Object
    The Media class represents a media resource. It is instantiated from the string form of a source URI. Information about the media such as duration, metadata, tracks, and video resolution may be obtained from a Media instance. The media information is obtained asynchronously and so not necessarily available immediately after instantiation of the class. All information should however be available if the instance has been associated with a MediaPlayer and that player has transitioned to MediaPlayer.Status.READY status. To be notified when metadata or Tracks are added, observers may be registered with the collections returned by getMetadata()and getTracks(), respectively.

    The same Media object may be shared among multiple MediaPlayer objects. Such a shared instance might manage a single copy of the source media data to be used by all players, or it might require a separate copy of the data for each player. The choice of implementation will not however have any effect on player behavior at the interface level.

    Since:
    JavaFX 2.0
    See Also:
    MediaPlayer, MediaException

    • Property Detail

      • error

        public ReadOnlyObjectProperty<MediaException> errorProperty
        A property set to a MediaException value when an error occurs. If error is non-null, then the media could not be loaded and is not usable. If onError is non-null, it will be invoked when the error property is set.
        See Also:
        getError()

      • width

        public ReadOnlyIntegerProperty widthProperty
        The width in pixels of the source media. This may be zero if the media has no width, e.g., when playing audio, or if the width is currently unknown which may occur with streaming media.
        See Also:
        getWidth()

      • height

        public ReadOnlyIntegerProperty heightProperty
        The height in pixels of the source media. This may be zero if the media has no height, e.g., when playing audio, or if the height is currently unknown which may occur with streaming media.
        See Also:
        getHeight()

    • Constructor Detail

      • Media

        public Media​(String source)
        Constructs a Media instance. This is the only way to specify the media source. The source must represent a valid URI and is immutable. Only HTTP, HTTPS, FILE, and JAR URLs are supported. If the provided URL is invalid then an exception will be thrown. If an asynchronous error occurs, the error property will be set. Listen to this property to be notified of any such errors.

        If the source uses a non-blocking protocol such as FILE, then any problems which can be detected immediately will cause a MediaException to be thrown. Such problems include the media being inaccessible or in an unsupported format. If however a potentially blocking protocol such as HTTP is used, then the connection will be initialized asynchronously so that these sorts of errors will be signaled by setting the error property.

        Constraints:

        • The supplied URI must conform to RFC-2396 as required by java.net.URI.
        • Only HTTP, HTTPS, FILE, and JAR URIs are supported.

        See java.net.URI for more information about URI formatting in general. JAR URL syntax is specified in java.net.JarURLConnection.

        Parameters:
        source - The URI of the source media.
        Throws:
        NullPointerException - if the URI string is null.
        IllegalArgumentException - if the URI string does not conform to RFC-2396 or, if appropriate, the Jar URL specification, or is in a non-compliant form which cannot be modified to a compliant form.
        IllegalArgumentException - if the URI string has a null scheme.
        UnsupportedOperationException - if the protocol specified for the source is not supported.
        MediaException - if the media source cannot be connected (type MediaException.Type.MEDIA_INACCESSIBLE) or is not supported (type MediaException.Type.MEDIA_UNSUPPORTED).

    • Method Detail

      • getError

        public final MediaException getError()
        Return any error encountered in the media.
        Returns:
        a MediaException or null if there is no error.

      • errorProperty

        public ReadOnlyObjectProperty<MediaException> errorProperty()
        A property set to a MediaException value when an error occurs. If error is non-null, then the media could not be loaded and is not usable. If onError is non-null, it will be invoked when the error property is set.
        See Also:
        getError()

      • setOnError

        public final void setOnError​(Runnable value)
        Set the event handler to be called when an error occurs.
        Parameters:
        value - the error event handler.

      • getOnError

        public final Runnable getOnError()
        Retrieve the error handler to be called if an error occurs.
        Returns:
        the error handler or null if none is defined.

      • onErrorProperty

        public ObjectProperty<Runnable> onErrorProperty()
        Event handler called when an error occurs. This will happen if a malformed or invalid URL is passed to the constructor or there is a problem accessing the URL.
        See Also:
        getOnError(), setOnError(Runnable)

      • getMetadata

        public final ObservableMap<String,Object> getMetadata()
        Retrieve the metadata contained in this media source. If there are no metadata, the returned ObservableMap will be empty.
        Returns:
        the metadata contained in this media source.

      • getWidth

        public final int getWidth()
        Retrieve the width in pixels of the media.
        Returns:
        the media width or zero if the width is undefined or unknown.

      • widthProperty

        public ReadOnlyIntegerProperty widthProperty()
        The width in pixels of the source media. This may be zero if the media has no width, e.g., when playing audio, or if the width is currently unknown which may occur with streaming media.
        See Also:
        getWidth()

      • getHeight

        public final int getHeight()
        Retrieve the height in pixels of the media.
        Returns:
        the media height or zero if the height is undefined or unknown.

      • heightProperty

        public ReadOnlyIntegerProperty heightProperty()
        The height in pixels of the source media. This may be zero if the media has no height, e.g., when playing audio, or if the height is currently unknown which may occur with streaming media.
        See Also:
        getHeight()

      • getTracks

        public final ObservableList<Track> getTracks()
        Retrieve the tracks contained in this media source. If there are no tracks, the returned ObservableList will be empty.
        Returns:
        the tracks contained in this media source.

      • getMarkers

        public final ObservableMap<String,Duration> getMarkers()
        Retrieve the markers defined on this Media instance. If there are no markers the returned ObservableMap will be empty. Programmatic markers may be added by inserting entries in the returned Map.
        Returns:
        the markers defined on this media source.

      • getSource

        public String getSource()
        Retrieve the source URI of the media.
        Returns:
        the media source URI as a String.