How to make and send an MMS from a GIF/AMR

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David Klugmann
Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 02:40 pm:   

Hi

I need to send out a number of MMS messages of which I at present have the AMR and GIF files separately. Can anyone tell me how these get combined and sent and whether nowsms will do this ?

Thanks

David
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2003 - 07:12 pm:   

Hi David,

If you use the "Send MMS Message" form in NowSMS, we will combine them into the appropriate format for sending out as an MMS message.

You'd probably want to also include a SMIL file as well, however, which would tell a browser to play the audio while the image is displayed.

Here's a simple SMIL file that would do the trick, just substitute in the appropriate file names (and you probably don't need the duration indicator, but in the past I've preset it to be the length of the audio bit):

<smil>
<body>
<par dur="20000ms">
<img src="imagename.gif"/>
<audio src="audioname.amr"/>
</par>
</body>
</smil>


Give the Now SMS/MMS Gateway the SMIL file, image and AMR file, and tell it to send it out via the "Send MMS Message" web form.

To do this programmatically, there's a new posting that explains different APIs for submitting MMS messages into the Now SMS/MMS Gateway:

http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/830.html

Also see:

http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/mms_notifications_and_c ontent/Sending.htm
http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/mms_notifications_and_c ontent/Creating_MMS_Message_Files.htm
David Klugmann
Posted on Friday, October 03, 2003 - 10:49 am:   

Many thanks for your help Bryce.