However, what I was really meaning was that the Java community could really benefit now with improvements to the JMF APIs - specifically havining read/write capabilities for the latest audio and video codecs (3gpp would be a start).

All clipstream seems to be (from my ten second look - apologies to you and them if I’ve missed them doing something clever) is a simple media player applet, that looks visually less compelling than Flash-based systems. But, with Java, the potential is to build really compelling applications that let people easily do amazing things with video in a visually compelling way. The problem is, the read/write support for codecs people want to use, isn’t that great.