Working with Audio and Video

Summary

This chapter should have brought one point to the forefront about MMAPI: It truly is protocol and format agnostic. Different devices support different formats and protocols, but the basics of using these varied formats and protocols remain the same.

This chapter brought to a conclusion the discussion on the various media types that are supported by MMAPI by focusing on the two main types: audio and video. You learned to query, display, control, record, save, and stream these two types using a variety of examples. You also saw the frailty of the MMAPI implementations currently present in the development world. In fact, I had to change devices midstream because one of the chosen devices didn’t do what it was supposed to do. This is an important lesson: Test all code in the chosen device!

The next and final chapter will show you a case study that covers some of the concepts discussed so far to create an audio, image, and video blogging MIDlet.