Layout management: When adding this bean to a panel or applet, do not use FlowLayout (the default), since it will shift the bean slightly lower in the panel, leaving a slight gap on the top and losing part of the image on the bottom. The FlowLayout manager will sometimes draw its components over the border if there is not enough space to draw them. Therefore, we recommend that you use bug-free layout managers that obey the insets of the panel.
Previous JMF versions: If JMF 1.01 or 1.02 is installed in the client machine, problems might arise playing multiple media in a Web browser. We recommend that JMF 1.01 or 1.02 be removed from the browser environment if you use the JMFPlayer Bean in an applet.
Visual Cafe 2.5: In current testing against Visual Cafe 2.5, the appletviewer that came with Visual Cafe 2.5 was incompatible with JMF 1.1. In order to test your applet, please export the class and html files, and run with the appletviewer from JDK 1.1.
Netscape 4.05: For Netscape browsers, Netscape security limits the capabilities of running local applets. To run JMFPlayer applets using Netscape Communicator 4.05, you must add the following three lines to Netscape\Users\Default\prefs.js:
user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support",true); user_pref("signed.applets.local_classes_have_30_powers", true); user_pref("signed.applets.low_security_for_local_classes", true);Netscape Communicator 4.06 and above: Netscape security exceptions occur when running local applets that read from the local hard drive. Applets have to be run remotely, through a web server.
To run the sample applet remotely with JMF 1.1 for Web Servers: Place jmf.jar in the samples\MPDemo\ directory, and in the file samples\MPDemo\readme.htm change the applet tag archive option to include jmf.jar: (mplite.jar is the condensed version of multiplayer.jar without the Bean Customization classes)
archive="mplite.jar,JMFPlayer.jar,jmf.jar"To run the sample applet remotely with JMF 1.1 for Windows: With Netscape 4.05 or above, make sure that the JMF 1.1 for Windows is installed in the client browser's machine.
To run the sample
applet locally with JMF 1.1 for Web Servers with Internet Explorer 4.0:
make sure that the jmf.jar, JMFPlayer.jar, and mplite.jar are in the system's classpath.