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| Anonymous |
Does the NowSMS/MMS gateway support the sending of video clip files to mobile phones? How will this be executed? What are the limitations to the size of the clips? Would it be possible to end a video clip of approx. 5000KB to a mobile phone with enough memory using the gateway? | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 2098 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi, Sending a 5000KB video clip isn't necessarily going to run you into limitations of NowSMS ... but it is going to run you into limitations of current generation mobile phones. The SonyEricsson P900 will accept MMS messages up to about 300KB in size. However, most Nokia phones have limits that are just over 100KB. In general, any phones that use a WAP stack for the MMS client would have problems receiving an MMS larger than around 300KB in size. It would seem to me that you would want to use a streaming protocol to send a 5MB video clip. Current generation MMS clients don't really handle streaming ... they download the entire message before displaying any of it. Many of the Nokia phones have versions of the Real Player in them, and you can launch the player through a content link in the browser. So rather than using MMS, you'd more likely be using WAP push to send a push message out to the browser, and let the browser launch the player to access the video clip in more of a streaming mode. -bn | |||
| Anonymous |
Thanks for the reply Bryce... Could you please explain the WAP Push procedure, and would this solve the problem of sending large video clips to mobile phones? For example, if the file is too big for the recepiant mobile device, what will happen during the WAP Push? If the phone CAN support such a large file (i.e 5000KB) will the transaction be successful? | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 2130 Registered: 10-2002 |
Basically, with WAP push, you are not sending the entire content out to the mobile phone. Instead, you are sending a URL link. The phone requests the URL ... and then hopefully by seeing that the "Content-length:" header is 5MB in size, the phone can abort the download (same if the phone does not support the "content-type" header). Of course, error handling for this is going to vary substantially between different devices. | |||
