Embedding media in an application

JavaFX provides a component, javafx.scene.media.MediaView, for viewing videos and listening to audios. This component is backed by a media engine, javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer, which loads and manages the playback of the media.

In this recipe, we will look at playing a sample video and controlling its playback by using the methods on the media engine.

Getting ready

As we know that JavaFX libraries are not shipped in the JDK installation from Oracle JDK 11 onward and Open JDK 10 onward, we will have to download the JavaFX SDK from here https://gluonhq.com/products/javafx/ and include the JARs present in the SDK's lib folder on the modular path using the -p option shown here:

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