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Playing Video in JFrame?

I'm trying to play video within a JFrame, I've been looking around online for a while and everything I have tried (VLCJ, Xuggger i think its called) doesn't work, the errors I get can I can never seem to fix, the closest I have gotten is using JMF which is very old, it can never play a video file but as mentioned, it's the furthust I've gotten. Is there any good little API's / examples I can look at?
Thanks.

I guess that depends on the video, however there are a few build in mechanism.
You could use java fx http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/media/simpleplayer.htm
And then build javafx into your JFrame, like here: http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/8/embed_swing/jfxpub-embed_swing.htm
If embedding in java seems to be a bad solution, there is always the possibility to open the systems media player:
Desktop.getDesktop().open(new File("the.mp4"));

Continuous Image Marquee

I'm just curious if anyone knows the easiest solution for an image marquee in Android with clickable events, etc.
I've looked at a few various projects and flicked through the manual, but I can't seem to find anything appropriate.
I would like to create a scrolling image effect similar to the Expedia android application homepage. See https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.expedia.bookings&hl=en
What I've looked at so far :
FragmentActivity -- Scrolling seems jittery and would take a fair old amount of adapting to achieve what I want
HorizontalScrollView -- Limited scroll functionality (this would be perfect if I could
continiously loop the contents, but short of overriding the draw I can't see how it's possible)
GLSurfaceView -- So far this seems like it's the only viable solution, but it's gonna take me a while to implement all the functionality manually
Before I get cracking deep into the OpenGL route it would be of great help to know if there is something out there that can already do this.
If anyone could suggest anything it would be much appreciated!
Thanks

Any good suggestion to animations with SWT/JFace

I'm developing a desktop application using java + SWT/JFace, which I'm not very familiar. The program need to show some pictures presenting the program's progress like this.
Sorry for my poor English, I'm not sure whether it's suitable to use the word "moving", actually I mean that the diagram is changing like Flash when an event occurs. I'm considering making some flash movies to play, but it seems difficult as I need to add third-party jars and I'm not good at flash. Is there any better way to doing work like this? I need your suggestion.
Thank you and sorry for my poor English again if I made some English mistakes that troubled you :)

You can use java2d and the awt-swt bridge or there is a framework called Timing Framework which works for swt and swing.

probably you need a gif embeded in your window. java cannot paly any animations unless you have series pictures and play them one by one very soon.

How to make overlay for video in swing

I want to make a transparent overlay for a foreign project to show live video. Sample of overlay is given in the image link below. In image you can see a overlay at right bottom corner showing face of a person, I also want to achieve same functionality using JMF to show face and then display the face in overlay using swing.
Sample Overley Imahe: http://www.ovostudios.com/images/vidsamsolo.jpg
Can someone help achieving this functionality?

If you're just starting the project and haven't actually got the JMF part up and running yet, then you might want to take a look at some alternatives before committing to it.
If you want to go ahead with Swing, to get the general overlay behaviour you want, you'll need to make use of Frame.setUndecorated() to turn off window borders and buttons, and Window.setAlwaysOnTop() to make sure the window stays on top of other windows. For the transparency, see this tutorial. However, I'm not sure whether transparency and video will work nicely together, so good luck!
You might also want to write a custom focus handler for the window so that it cannot be focused, although it is probably impossible for the overlay to be properly 'phantom' whereby clicks just pass through the overlay to the underlying desktop. That kind of behaviour might only be possible by using low-level graphics techniques i.e. by not creating a window at all, but by drawing directly onto the screen. That might require a native library.

Turn photoshop design into Java GUI

I can't seem to find anybody who has done or posted something like this; Essentially I want to design my own UI in photoshop and then slice down the images to use it in a Java application. Essentially coding in the PSD file as the GUI. Is this possible? If so, can anybody lead me in the right direction?
I'm not sure what editor to use for this sort of stuff. I am using the Eclipse IDE and I know there is a Visual Editor but, I already have the actual design for every component in a PSD file. All I want to do is to start incorporating this into the application. Thanks.

It depends on how far your design goes. If you simply want to have normal Swing components on top of your image this is easy. Convert your PSD into (for example) PNG, create a custom JPanel subclass that loads the image and overwrite the paintComponent() method to draw the image instead of the normal background. All child components can then be set to be transparent with setOpaque(false). This puts your image into the background and puts the components float on top of it.
If you want to change how individual components look, its a lot more work. You basically need to implement a new Look&Feel for Swing. I wouldn't recommend going that route, unless you really have to, we are talking about weeks of work here, and it requires a lot of testing to really make it work properly on all platforms.
Alternately, there are already tons of custom Look&Feels available, I suggest you take a look at some freely available ones (just google "java look and feel"). Many of them can be customized to some degree (how much depends on the actual implementation, so take a close look at the source/documentation for each of them).

You might want to take a look at NetBeans which has a Swing GUI Builder. You would have to redraw your components there, and then write all the code to process the events. It is sometimes good to start with that, though often times it is less frustrating to lay them out with code by hand as it can difficult to make changes in code and have the builder keep up. There is nothing I know that will let you start from a photoshop image and proceed to building a GUI. Sounds like a good project to make someone rich. :-)