Received MMS message can't be played as 'a single package'

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Xin Guo
New member
Username: Guox

Post Number: 1
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 09:13 am:   

Hi,

I sent a few MMS messages via the Now SMS web interface, the MMS messages I received later on a mobile phone can not be played just by a single click. I mean, the MMS message I received looks like a E-mail with several media content attachments. In order to read the received MMS message I had to click and view every single media content attached in that MMS message one by one.

Also, I have a Java program which sends URLs to Now SMS gateway to trigger the gateway generating and sending MMS messages. I had the same problem when I used this program to send MMS messages.

Is there any one know how to solve this ?

Many thanks,

Xin
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 3342
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 03:59 pm:   

Hi Xin,

That is because the message content does not include a SMIL file.

NowSMS does not generate one automatically (except that it does in v5.51 for submissions via SMTP e-mail).

Just include a ".smil" file as one of the message parts. A real simple SMIL template to follow is this:

<smil>
<body>
<par>
<img src="filename"/>
<audio src="filename"/>
<video src="filename"/>
<ref src="filename"/>
</par>
</body>
</smil>

Unless you get into more sophisticated SMIL with different region definitions, it's best to include only one "img", "video" or "ref" object per page ("par").

If you need to use multiple pages, it would look like this:

<smil>
<body>
<par dur="5000ms">
<img src="filename1"/>
</par>
<par dur="5000ms">
<img src="filename2"/>
</par>
</body>
</smil>

The above examples are very simple SMIL. The "img", "audio" and "video" tags are all self explanatory, use the "ref" tag if you want to include a different type of object (Java, vCard, vCal, etc.).

-bn
Yu Haixue
New member
Username: Yuhaixue

Post Number: 1
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Monday, September 06, 2004 - 03:41 am:   

I use web interface to send MMS that composes of a .jpg. My SE T618 handset can receive the subject and display message size corrently,but can't display the phone number of sender. When T618 downloads the image,it indicate that Communication Error? Please contact Operator.(In Chinese)
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 3493
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - 09:11 pm:   

See http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/485/6189.html