I want to run a program called VLC in java and control it while running, for example if user clicked on ❚❚ or ►► button, I do a s
Depending on what you want to ultimately accomplish maybe the gstreamer Java bindings are worth a look which will give you a very fine grained control about the playback. And you can do conversions and everything. They also have a minimalistic video player example application to get you started with.