Java Video Data extraction question

[Yogurtron]

Greetings. Because I lost my anime list in a reformat, and I have a new DVD burner, I was giong to redo my Anime Collection's form of storage. I was also going to make a new, better database to hold my collection. I'm currently programming it myself in java, just a way to store a bunch of information about it.

But I was curious about on thing though. I wanted to make mine uber in depth, so it'd save the codec used, and the resolutions, and bitrates and all that fun stuff.... but it'll take a long time to write that part in by hand. I was curious if anybody knows of any class files or other means of getting a Java program to read video information from a file? (By that I mean actually extract the resolution, FOURCC identifier, other codec information, etc from the header itself)

Thanks

[trythil]

The Java Media Framework may have what you're looking for.

It won't, however, cover some of the newer container formats such as Matroska or Vorbis streams. For those kinds of things, I'd suggest adapting an existing parser or writing your own.