How to read received Video MMS message?

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Xin Guo
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Username: Guox

Post Number: 4
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2004 - 01:51 pm:   

Hi Bryce,

A silly question: How to play received Video MMS message?

I have tried sending a MMS message which 'contains' 2 video clips to my mobile phone (a SonyEricsson p800). After I received the MMS message I single clicked on it; it then played but without displaying the video content.

However, if I single click on an individual video clip contained by the MMS message. The clip did play in PacketVideo player. Do you know anything about how to correctly read the video MMS message ?

Many thanks,

Xin

I attach my SMIL file (it is in the same folder with the two video clips) with this post.

text/htmlVideo MMS SMIL file
test.smil (0.5 k)
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
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Username: Bryce

Post Number: 3406
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2004 - 10:06 pm:   

Hi Xin,

I don't think that's going to work. In current generation MMS clients, the "src=" reference can't be to an external link. It needs to refer to the filename/content-location or content-id of the content, encapsulated into that MMS message.

If you can send the MP4 file with the message, you'd probably have better luck.

While it would be too logical to do things like in your SMIL file, using external references to the video content, it seems that the 3GPP has other ideas. Their idea for referencing external content for streaming video is to include an SDP file in the MMS message, and the SDP file would point to the RTSP link. See my posting about this at the following link: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/485/4325.html ... and also the references to the relevant specs.

However, keep in mind that all of that discussion is for "future" implementations ... it is not going to help you send content to an existing device. For that, the only solution that I'm aware of is to actually package up the video content and send it with the MMS message instead of sending it as a link.

-bn