See attached application.
This application creates the MediaPlayer and when the user clicks the Play button the MediaPlayer #play() is called

There are two cases:
If the media is remote ( http:// ) then the following state transition sequence is observed:

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Player status READY
Player status PAUSED
Player status PLAYING
Current time 2478.4984950000003 ms
Current time 2577.335442 ms
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The PAUSED state should not be entered, sine according to http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/index.html the only way to enter it is to call pause()

If the media is local (file:// ) the behavior is even more bizarre, the PLAYING state is never entered, but the actual movie is being played. The mediaPlayer.currentTimeProperty() is never invalidated.

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Player status READY
Player status PAUSED
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