Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android
by mastax on Thursday July 20, 2017 @11:03PM
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I also have issues sending video over MMS.
I think the issue is just the design of MMS. It was designed back when dumbphones ruled, so it was designed to have cell networks transcode media into a compatible format for the target device. The cell networks don't want to spend the cpu cycles or perhaps engineer time to do it properly. Perhaps RCS[0] solves this issue, but I think everyone will have switched to WhatsApp, et. al by then.
I think the issue is just the design of MMS. It was designed back when dumbphones ruled, so it was designed to have cell networks transcode media into a compatible format for the target device. The cell networks don't want to spend the cpu cycles or perhaps engineer time to do it properly. Perhaps RCS[0] solves this issue, but I think everyone will have switched to WhatsApp, et. al by then.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services