Changes between releases

In Symbian^3

Support for HDMI playback
Support for a number of new audio content types for progressive playback
RTSP support for MP4 video
Support for DRMv1 and DRMv2 to play both protected audio and video contents. For more information, see Digital rights management.

In S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2

When an audio or video player is active, an incoming call pauses the player. The user can start the player again afterwards.
PlayerListener.DURATION_UPDATED event is supported. Event is sent when a known media duration value changes.
OMA DRM 2.0 is supported for audio.
External volume buttons can be used to change volume level of MMAPI Players in phone models that have the buttons present.
RTSP streaming player automatically uses existing Internet connection if a connection is already open.
RecordControl.setRecordLocation automatically creates destination file if it does not exist already.
VolumeControl.getVolume initially returns current system volume level if player volume level has not been set using VolumeControl.setVolume.
When the Multimedia recording function group does not explicitly deny or permit access to snapshot feature, the snapshot is still taken before presenting the security dialog to the user.
A Nokia proprietary event is added to notify when volume is changed via External volume keys.

In S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1

New controls supported for Audio (RateControl and MetaDataControl) and Video playback (RateControl and FramePositioningControl).
New formats supported for Audio (WMA) and Video (GIF).
HTTP streaming is supported for the media type audio/amr and audio/amr-wb. Note that previous releases did not support HTTP streaming.
OMA DRM 1.0 is supported for all content types. In the previous release, OMA DRM 1.0 was supported only for audio.

In S60 3rd Edition

MMAPI audio mixing is supported.
audio.encodings and video.encodings contents are now discovered on-the-fly and should therefore correspond better to all device supported content types.
Interactive MIDI is supported by MIDI_DEVICE_LOCATOR locator (device://midi).
Tone player and Manager.playTone() use MIDI instead of simple beep tones.
OMA DRM 1.0 is supported for audio.
A limited number of Players can exist simultaneously. Creating a player with Manager.createPlayer or prefetching a player throws MediaException after the limit has been reached. The limit depends on current system resource usage and is a moving target. It is advised that you not have many players existing at the same and that you explicitly close any players that are not used any more.
New MIDI player controls: StopTimeControl, TempoControl, MIDIControl, PitchControl, and RateControl
New tone player controls: TempoControl, MIDIControl, PitchControl, and RateControl
A single alarm tone is played at the beginning of a video recording. When a video snapshot (a photograph) is taken, a camera shutter sound is played.

In Series 40 6th Edition

Added support for:

In Series 40 5th Edition, Feature Pack 1

Added support for:

In Series 40 5th Edition

Added support for:

In Series 40 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2

Added support for:

In Series 40 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1

“Application tones” setting and fixed silent profile supported
“Swap and play” supported, enabling several active audio players to exist at one time
Video and audio recording supported
Image capture supported
Image format playback, for example, PNG or GIF, supported
eAAC+ and Windows Media Audio 9 and 10 (only non-DRM protected content supported
Audio rate control supported
Audio metadata supported
Volume keys supported

In Series 40 2nd Edition

This API was first included in Series 40 2nd Edition.