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Video conferencing can be done by many methods but why JMF is used for video/audio streaming what are

its advantages?
It has RTP built-in, handles a handful of the most basic codecs, there is decent documentation for it...is written in Java... easily extendible for new codec support...

what are its disadvantages?


It hasn't been updated or supported in 7 years... Windows 2000 was the last supported operating system... has bugs which will never be fixed... only supports a handful of low-bandwidth formats for streaming...

Is there any other better way to do video conferencing ?


Yeah, tons...the best alternative right now would probably be with Adobe Flex technology, but JavaFX and Silverlight will both have audio & video capturing / streaming capabilities soon...

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