Formatting Multimedia Wap Push

Formatting Multimedia Wap Push SearchSearch
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lars mservice
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 02:22 pm:   

Hi.
Thought i'd try out the Multimedia Wap Push(MWP).
But i am a bit confused. I can see the point of nowsms creating a wml page and displaying the content. I use HTTP POST to nowsms.
How do i tell nowsms about the images/sounds/textx/pages in the mms message???
Do i point it to the SMIL file or...?

Hope you can explain a bit more that i can find ;-)


Herer is a typically SMIL file, sue as an example...



[smil]
[head]
[meta name="title" content="nowsms.com" /]
[meta name="author" content="Lars" /]
[layout]
[root-layout background-color="black" width="256" height="178"/]
[region id="Image" width="128" height="128" left="0" top="0"/]
[region id="Text" width="128" height="50" left="128" top="0"/]
[/layout]
[/head]
[body]
[par dur="5s"]
[img src="natur_1.jpg" region="Image" /]
[audio src="blowdoor.amr" /]
[/par]
[par dur="5s"]
[text src="txt.txt" region="Text"]
[param name="foreground-color" value="red" /]
[param name="textsize" value="large" /]
[/text]
[/par]
[par dur="5s"]
[text src="12send.txt" region="Text"]
[param name="foreground-color" value="red" /]
[param name="textsize" value="large" /]
[/text]
[/par]
[/body]
[/smil]


lars mservice
Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 03:01 pm:   

Forget that smil stuff.
You have to define every file like: &MMSFILE=123.gif&mmsfile=ghh.gif

The only question left is; Why it cannot retrieve Content files from an axternal HTTP address like http://support.nowsms.com/discus/123.gif ?
The actual content have to lie on the nowsms server.
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Posted on Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 09:42 pm:   

Right. You do an HTTP POST of the content, and then we build links to the non-text files. Content conversion will also automatically scale images, and/or convert them to black & white for older phones.

But you do have to do the HTTP POST of the content.

We've received a lot of requests from folks wanting to see an extension to the current logic where the "MMSFILE" parameter could be an HTTP reference to an external object (which would allow the message to be submitted with HTTP GET).

It's pretty high on the list of requested features to add this "MMSFILE" as a URL reference capability. There's been some talk of trying to squeeze that feature into v5.0, but it is likely to follow after that release.

-bn