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Hopefully this is worthwhile to someone, but to continue an earlier post.... I encountered an issue on Windows wherein loading UTF-8 fileNames from a UTF-8 MySql database would not always work. I saw that Charset.defaultCharset().name = "windows-1252", so I thought converting the string to...

I discovered an odd issue, but it may be a boundary case. If you call setMedia with a String that has a non UTF-8 encoding (windows-1252), then the file fails to play with a "could not find file" error. [redact]However, if you convert it to UTF-8, then the file plays successfully.[/redact]...

From the LibVLC perspective, platform-specific code is unavoidable for video embedding. This stems from the fact that native window handles are required. Thanks. That makes complete sense. I was looking at it too much from the pampered portable-language perspective. With the newest version of the v...

Thanks all for the helpful comments. @sherington: I've tried a transparent GlassPane, but for some reason I couldn't get it working. I think that this has to do with mixing lightweight and heavyweight components. I discovered the AWTUtilities class here, http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticl...

I am using java1.6 on Windows XP SP3. Thanks to sherington and the excellent vlcj project, I have a basic video player application. However, I need to intercept keyboard and mouse events to trigger actions (custom menu, log to database, etc.). The vlcj implementation passes a pointer to a heavyweigh...