It is important to select a media content type that can be used
in many devices or most of the target devices of your MIDP application.
With the proper media content type you do not need to constantly update
your MIDP application or create multiple versions of it for different
device groups. Refer to MIDP: Mobile Media API Support In Nokia Devices for more information regarding which media contents function on
your target mobile devices. It is also possible to query the supported
protocols and content types by protocol from the MMAPI. Protocols
can be queried with the getSupportedProtocols method of the Manager class. If you enter a null parameter, it returns an array of protocols that
the platform's MMAPI implementation should support. The following
is an example of the query:
String[] protocols = Manager.getSupportedProtocols(null);
Secondly, by using the getSupportedContentTypes method of the Manager class it is possible
to obtain an array of content types that a specific protocol supports.
With a null parameter, all supported content
types will be returned. The returned list with the null parameter contains supported content types for all the protocols
and content types supported in capture. For example, the list might
contain a content type that works with RTSP but not with HTTP. To
get a protocol-specific content type list, you may first query the
list of supported protocols by using the getSupportedProtocols method and use one of those as a parameter on the getSupportedContentTypes method. The following is an example of how to obtain an array containing
supported content types:
String protocol = String[] contents = Manager.getSupportedContentTypes(protocol);