Difficult on accessing a video's directory

Question

HELLO I made a video plays on a panel

and I get the video's url by this :

URL urlWaterIntake = new URL("file:///c:/tmp/water.avi");

BUT I moved the 'tmp' folder inside the 'bin' folder of eclipse IDE , and now i access by this :

URL urlWaterIntake = new URL("file:///tmp/water.avi");

AND ERRORR !!! voila !! what a life ... , some solutions ??

btw i tried this one too :

File myFile = new File("tmp/water.avi");
URL urlWaterIntake = new URL(myFile.toURI().toURL());

BUT NOTHING WORKS.....

Are you using it inside Applet or inside JSP or anything else? — Braj, May 13 '14 at 15:41
possible solution: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3209987/2777098 — display name, May 13 '14 at 15:47
@ IsabelHM , yeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that works .... thanks browwwwww..... — , May 13 '14 at 15:51

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 13 '14 at 15:52

Try with System#getProperty() to get the below directories if you want to use absolute path under Windows system.

String userHome = System.getProperty("user.home");     
String tempDir  = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");

Read from same package where the class is present

URL url = this.getClass().getResource("water.avi");

OR

Read from tmp folder parallel to src in your project

File file = new File("tmp/water.avi");
URL urlWaterIntake = file.toURI().toURL();

thankssss ... this "URL url = this.getClass().getResource("water.avi");" works like a heroo... — , May 13 '14 at 16:00

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