Using the Media Classes - JavaFX 8: A Definitive Guide to Building Desktop, Mobile, and Embedded Java Clients - page 414

#backButton {
-fx-shape: "M 3,0 L 12,0 Q 13,0 13,1 L 13,9 Q 13,10 12,10 L 3,10 1,5";
-fx-font-size: 12pt;
-fx-alignment: center-right;
}
.eqSlider {
-fx-background-radius: 5;
-fx-background-color: #222, #888, black;
-fx-background-insets: 0, 1 0 0 1, 1;
-fx-padding: 2 10;
}
.eqSlider .thumb {
-fx-background-image: url("resources/thumb.png");
-fx-padding: 12;
}
.eqSlider:vertical .track{
-fx-padding: 5;
}
.spectrumBar {
-fx-background-radius: 5;
-fx-background-color: #222, #888, black;
-fx-background-insets: 0, 1 0 0 1, 1;
-fx-padding: 2 10;
}
MediaPlayer Wrap-Up
Playing media files over the Internet happens automatically with the JavaFX media API. All you have to do is point
a Media object to an HTTP resource and attach it to a MediaPlayer with autoPlay set to true. If, however, you are
interested in monitoring the progress of the download buffer, you can use the bufferProgressTime property in the
MediaPlayer class. When data are loaded from a stream or from disk, the amount of time those data will take to play is
calculated and this time is regularly updated as the value of bufferProgressTime . By binding to this property, you can
receive these updates and effectively monitor the media's buffer.
The final two MediaPlayer properties we discuss are the rate and currentRate properties. Calling setRate
allows you to control the rate of the playback. Passing a parameter of 1.0 will cause playback to proceed at the normal
rate. A parameter of 2.0 would cause your media to be played at twice the normal rate. You can pass any value between
0.0 and 8.0. The currentRate property always reflects the actual rate of playback, regardless of the value of the rate
property. For example, if playback is currently stalled, currentRate will be 0.0 even though rate may be set to 4.0.
Playing Video
From an API standpoint, playing video instead of audio is as simple as wrapping a MediaPlayer with a MediaView
and adding the MediaView to the scene graph. Listing 9-31 shows how this is done. You simply point a Media object at
a valid source (a Flash movie in this case) and wrap it with an auto-playing MediaPlayer , which, in turn, is wrapped
with a MediaView . The final step is to add the MediaView to the scene and set the size of the scene to match the size of
the movie.