Good day,
Last week my JRE got updated to build 1.8.0_251-b08, by the semi automatic update process. Yes, I clicked update now.
To my horror, the one and only javafx application that I have ever written, for my own pleasure and convenience, stopped working after that update. It is an application that heavily uses the javafx.scene.media package.
I tried to figure out how to roll back the update, but that seems impossible. I have only the JRE and not an SDK. I develop and compile with Eclipse.
The problem: as said is with the media package. I created my own fully fledged media player with this package. What happens is the following:
1) A media file is selected
2) Media, MediaPlayer and MediaView instances are created
3) The MediaView is incorporated in the scene tree
4) The player is started
What happened before the update:
The media is shown playing (the image is moving), the sound is audible and an indicator of the time is displayed. The media player status is shown as "PLAYING". In short: everything works fine and as intended.
After the update however, the image is frozen: I can hear the audio, the time indicator is running and the status is "PLAYING". When stopping the video, everything stops, and when restarting the video restarts at that point, only with a frozen image. In short: my application has become useless.
Has anyone seen this behaviour in the updated JRE? Has anyone succeeded to play a video in the updated JRE without freeze at all? Has anyone a suggestion as what might be wrong here?
Does anyone know of a way to revert to the previous JRE build (I believe this is 1.8.0_241-b07)?
Any help is appreciated,
Piet