Wombat Mobile I should be coding or sleeping instead of this...

I'm poking around with the mmapi for J2ME trying to decide on a good audio or video format for a new app. It's not easy to figure out which phones support which formats.

Nokia has a pdf called Mobile Media API Implementation In Nokia Developer Platforms v1.0 that has some info, but it's pretty outdated.

It was hard to find documentation, so I put together a MIDlet to find out what's really going on. If you're going through the same thing, maybe it'll help.

My 6620 actually supports a bunch of different audio and video formats, but unfortunately the emulators I'm working with do not. I suspect there's quite a bunch of variance among different phone models out there, too. Hmm, I guess one nice thing about developing for Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop was that you had a fair expectation about what the user could handle.

I was getting accustomed to developing against emulators then testing on my phone, but it looks like I won't have that luxury for my next project.

Fun Fun Fun!