The Core Pocket Media Player
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| The Core Pocket Media Player | |
| Maintainer: | CoreCodec, Inc. |
| Stable release: | 0.71 (23 November 2005) [+/-] |
| Preview release: | 0.72 RC1 (2006-02-22) [+/-] |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | Media player |
| License: | Open Source/Proprietary |
| Website: | http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/ |
The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) is a software media player. Supported operating systems include Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Palm OS and Symbian OS. In 2007, CoreCodec plans on renaming TCPMP to BetaPlayer and will expand on the supported platforms by releasing COM, .NET, Linux (GTK+), Linux (QT), Linux (QTopia), and Apple Computer's Mac OS X versions.
TCPMP supports many audio, video, and image formats, including AC3, HE-AAC, AMR, DivX, FLAC, H.263, H.264, JPEG, Monkey's Audio, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MP2, MP3, Musepack, MS-MPEG4-v3, PNG, Speex, TIFF, TTA, Vorbis, WAV, WavPack and XviD. It supports many container formats, including 3GP, ASF, AVI, Matroska, MPEG, OGG, OGM and QuickTime. Some formats, such as H.264 require a plugin, which may hamper performance.
TCPMP began as an open source player for Windows CE and Windows Mobile called Betaplayer. In 2005 the development team ported it to the Palm OS, Windows and Symbian operating systems.
CorePlayerX is the name of a web browser plug-in for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla and Opera 9 for Windows. In 2006, support for Apple Mac OS X/Safari and Linux/Firefox will be introduced.
The open source GPL version is freely available at the CoreCodec development website or alternate site, while the licensable OEM version of CorePlayer will be available on CorePlayer.com. Licensable components like the directshow H.264 video codec CoreAVC are now available.
TCPMP also has hardware accelerated playback for ATI and Intel 2700g mobiles, such as the Tapwave Zodiac and Dell Axim X50v.
TCPMP could be seen running on Morris O'Brian's Pocket PC on the popular television drama 24. During the episode that aired on February 26, 2007 (Day 6: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM), it was used to display a brief animation simulating a contact list.
