Dealing with video (DVDs, .avi .mkv) in Java

Question

After looking around for a decent library for playing videos in Java, I\'ve come unstuck. Everyone around is screaming not to use JMF because it\'s outdated, old and require

Answer 1

Have you tried of using the JavaFX APIs?.

The way I see it JavaFX includes support for H.264 playback... and here someone shows how to play back video in Google´s new open source WebM / VP8

http://javafxplace.blogspot.com/2010/06/javafx-and-webm-on-linux.html