A Video Streaming Application Using Mobile Media Application Programming Interface

       The development of mobile phone technology is growing geometrically and this fenomena bring us to the requirement of a multimedia mobile phone that can be work with Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Until now WLAN technology on mobile phones to access the streaming video is still difficult to find, for example S60 Symbian operating system as a multimedia mobile phone is support in handling a video. This study presents the making of a video streaming application in mobile phone via a WLAN connection using JSR 135 technology or the Mobile Media API (MMAPI). MMAPI is used to control the process of video streaming and its features. The application uses the two protocols; RTSP and HTTP. Experiment results show that the use of MMAPI on Symbian 60 based mobile phones to do video streaming is feasible and has a good reliability as 0% packet loss on connection. In addition, the times required to play multimedia files are not affected by the size of video streaming files.
       But in next era, mobile phone technology has been growing rapidly. Now, the development is on multimedia mobile phones. Most mobile phone manufacturers use Symbian operating system to support the products. The latest Symbian version of the multimedia mobile phones is Symbian version 60. The Symbian 60 has the editions according to features being added on starting from S60 First Edition, S60 Second Edition, S60 Third Edition and the most recent version is S60 Fifth Edition. As the growing demand for multimedia quality, the growing in the multimedia technology is also balancing. In the S60 Third Edition and Fifth Edition, the phone has been equipped by a variety of connection options to support multimedia flexibility.
       As conclusion, the use of streaming technology in mobile phones with the S60 operating system is very rare. Though it has been known that mobile phones with that type already has the feature of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Video streaming technology enables mobile users to watch videos without having to have the video files on a cell phone or download it first from other devices. It can be imagined if the video file with the size of 100MB should be downloaded to a mobile phone, then it will take a long time to finish and a large storage. By utilizing streaming video technology on mobile phones, this problem will not happen. J2ME or Java 2 Micro Edition has a mobile library media API (MMAPI) or JSR (Java Specification Requests) 135 used to handle multimedia files. The developed a video streaming application on mobile phones based on Symbian OS via WLAN using a Mobile Media API (MMAPI).

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