JMF on Ubuntu
Two tweaks seem to be needed to use JMF to capture video from a webcam on Ubuntu:
1. As described in this thread, you need to edit the install script (before running it as it erases itself when run!) you get off Sun's site
- edit the file using vim -b as it is partially a binary file
- change the arguments to tail from 'tail +309' to 'tail -n+309'
2. As described in this thread, copy all the libraries (.so files) in JMFHOME/lib/ to /usr/lib, and run ldconfig (as root) to update.For distribution you would obviously want to do this differently, this is just a quick hack to get started
1. As described in this thread, you need to edit the install script (before running it as it erases itself when run!) you get off Sun's site
- edit the file using vim -b as it is partially a binary file
- change the arguments to tail from 'tail +309' to 'tail -n+309'
2. As described in this thread, copy all the libraries (.so files) in JMFHOME/lib/ to /usr/lib, and run ldconfig (as root) to update.For distribution you would obviously want to do this differently, this is just a quick hack to get started