Play a video using JavaFX on Raspberry Pi - javafx

Question

I need to run a JavaFX project on Raspberry Pi (RASPBIAN JESSIE). The project includes usage of WebView and MediaView/MediaPlayer. Since Oracle does not support JavaFX on ARM platforms, I tried JavaFX port by Gluon (JavaFX Embedded SDK 8.60.8). WebView works almost perfectly. However, when I want to play a video using MediaPlayer/MediaView, I get the exception:
Error in GstPipelineFactory: can't find element for factory named qtdemux
Exception in Application start method
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplicationWithArgs(LauncherImpl.java:389)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication(LauncherImpl.java:328)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper$FXHelper.main(LauncherHelper.java:767)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in Application start method
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:917)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$156(LauncherImpl.java:182)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: MediaException: UNKNOWN : com.sun.media.jfxmedia.MediaException: Could not create player! : com.sun.media.jfxmedia.MediaException: Could not create player!
at javafx.scene.media.MediaException.exceptionToMediaException(MediaException.java:146)
at javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer.init(MediaPlayer.java:511)
at javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer.<init>(MediaPlayer.java:414)
at zirro.App.start(App.java:21)
at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication1$163(LauncherImpl.java:863)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runAndWait$176(PlatformImpl.java:326)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$null$174(PlatformImpl.java:295)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$175(PlatformImpl.java:294)
at com.sun.glass.ui.monocle.RunnableProcessor.runLoop(RunnableProcessor.java:92)
at com.sun.glass.ui.monocle.RunnableProcessor.run(RunnableProcessor.java:51)
... 1 more
Caused by: com.sun.media.jfxmedia.MediaException: Could not create player!
at com.sun.media.jfxmediaimpl.NativeMediaManager.getPlayer(NativeMediaManager.java:224)
at com.sun.media.jfxmedia.MediaManager.getPlayer(MediaManager.java:104)
at javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer.init(MediaPlayer.java:467)
... 10 more
Any ideas how to successfully run a JavaFX application with WebView and MediaView/MediaPlayer on Raspberry Pi?

Answer 1

WebView and Media were never part of the JavaFX ARM distribution, but Gluon recently added it to the embedded SDK that can be downloaded from here and installed with a recent JDK for ARM, available here.
Media requires a few extra steps as it depends in the native drivers that usually are not fully installed on a regular Jessie distribution.
First install these drivers:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
Now edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add at the end:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
Save the file (Ctrl+O, Ctrl+X).
Finally update and install the drivers:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-alsa
Now you can try to run again your JavaFX application.
If you find again the same exception (MediaException: UNKNOWN), check if it shows this message: Error in GstPipelineFactory, notice the driver that is missing, and try to install it.

Answer 2

I wanted to updated the correct anwser from José Pereda.
The repository for the gstreamer is not up to date. Thats the way I get it to work.
Update the /etc/apt/sources.list
deb [trusted=yes] http://archive.debian.org/debian wheezy main
deb-src [trusted=yes] http://archive.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
And then install the dependencies.
sudo apt-get install libtag1-vanilla
sudo apt-get install libtag1-rusxmms
sudo apt-get install libtag1c2a
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-alsa