For those of you who don't know, CorePlayer is an amazing media player for mobile devices which supports the following audio and video formats,
Audio:
Enjoy your music with these supported formats: MP3, AAC, MKA, WMA, WAV, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, FLAC, MPC, AMR, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, MIDI
Video: It support these formats and containers:
Video: H.264 (AVC), MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, WMV, MJPEG
Containers: Matroska, TS, PS, 3GPP, MOV, AVI, MPEG-4, NSV
I am very pleased with CorePlayer Mobile. I have a Mac computer and use iTunes for all my media. And yes I have an iPod. However, this software enables me to play my non-copy protected iTunes video files on my PDA. I just drag and drop the iTunes files onto an SD card with no format conversion.:approve:
pardon my pessimism.. why is this a cause for celebration, again?
This piece of software does nothing better than its FREE, OPEN-SOURCE predecessor TCPMP.
Except now you have to pay for it.
Oh, and you got h264 support (on ARM-powered devices? hah!) and Matroska container support.
Matroska is a terrible, worthless, poorly-supported, buggy 'standard' full of bloated feeps that has been making empty promises about industry support and hardware decoding support for 4 years or more without results. In fact, it barely even plays on desktop PCs without constant tinkering and patching, so how can one expect it to play back reliably on XScale chips in PDAs?
The Core Player smells suspiciously like Divx;). An open-source product team discovers they can squeeze some money out of it, and so roll up the content and code the community has contributed for their own benefit, and hang the free project out to die.
I'm not going to knock the software as a whole, I'm very fond of TCPMP and it's rock-solid for Divx/Xvid codec support. But I do take issue with the obvious fact that the developers have taken open-source and tossed it in the trash for a quick cash grab. If this was your intent, why was the product ever open-source in the first place, except to abuse the community's goodwill?
can someone please explain to me how to install the program?
there is a folder with like 8 files.
none of them i can click on...
i tried creating a coreplayer folder on my pda and moving them to it adn then clicking on them through the pda...with no luck
anyone have a tip...?
i feel dumb.
What you have downloaded is a .cab file.
Using ActiveSync/Explore/ Windows Based Mobile Device copy it to your PDA Temp file. I you then execute this ,cab file it will install itself into main memory.
Better still use the free utility Cabinstall which will install a .cab file anywhere you want it. It is better installed on a CF or SD card that taking space in main memory.
pardon my pessimism.. why is this a cause for celebration, again?
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I'm not going to knock the software as a whole, I'm very fond of TCPMP and it's rock-solid for Divx/Xvid codec support. But I do take issue with the obvious fact that the developers have taken open-source and tossed it in the trash for a quick cash grab. If this was your intent, why was the product ever open-source in the first place, except to abuse the community's goodwill?
Your post isn't as pessimistic as it is ignorant. From your comments its obvious you don't really know anything about CorePlayer. Love it or hate it, it is certainly NOT just a re-packged TCPMP.
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Your post isn't as pessimistic as it is ignorant. From your comments its obvious you don't really know anything about CorePlayer. Love it or hate it, it is certainly NOT just a re-packged TCPMP.
oh, well why don't you enlighten us on the amazing new features that make this a better product, rather than just calling names?
Originally Posted by Rishad
Audio:
Enjoy your music with these supported formats: MP3, AAC, MKA, WMA, WAV, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, FLAC, MPC, AMR, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, MIDI
Video: It support these formats and containers:
Video: H.264 (AVC), MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, WMV, MJPEG
Containers: Matroska, TS, PS, 3GPP, MOV, AVI, MPEG-4, NSV
I see a multimedia player that adds some new video formats that are completely impractical for playback on a 600mhz PocketPC, let alone a 200-300mhz smartphone. It also adds some audio formats such as FLAC, MKA and MPC which are gratuitous at best. Nearly all the rest are/were already supported in TCPMP including those which 99.99% of the population will actually use - MPEG1-2-4, Divx/Xvid, MP3, AAC and OGG audio.
Or were you referring to the ability to 'skin' the player? Wow, a pointless GUI change! That'll sure come in handy while I'm sitting and watching video full-screen for the next half-hour.
Not everyone is gullible enough to believe that more feeps means a product is better.
Last edited by ryusoma; 06-26-07 at 02:27 PM.
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oh, well why don't you enlighten us on the amazing new features that make this a better product, rather than just calling names?
I see a multimedia player that adds some new video formats that are completely impractical for playback on a 600mhz PocketPC, let alone a 200-300mhz smartphone. It also adds some audio formats such as FLAC, MKA and MPC which are gratuitous at best. Nearly all the rest are/were already supported in TCPMP including those which 99.99% of the population will actually use - MPEG1-2-4, Divx/Xvid, MP3, AAC and OGG audio.
Or were you referring to the ability to 'skin' the player? Wow, a pointless GUI change! That'll sure come in handy while I'm sitting and watching video full-screen for the next half-hour.
Not everyone is gullible enough to believe that more feeps means a product is better.
I didn't call anybody any "names" -- I said your post was ignorant.
Its fine that you don't like Coreplayer, I'm not all that happy with it either. But you really need to go to the website and learn about what the product is and why the developers took the path they did. You don't know enough about any of it to make these comments, so it comes off as you are just badmouthing it for the sake of badmouthing. Go to the site, understand what the team is doing, then come back and give your criticism.
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well i decided to jump in and got it, in its current stage it isn't "better" than tcpmp is certain aspects. (1) cost , (2) flv plugin, (3) simplicity [i liked the boring skin on tcpmp and how simple it is to use after installation, (4) ez switching from languages and (5) ac3 { i think}
whereas coreplayer has (1) bluetooth compatibility, (2) xivd, (3) spb plugin, and (4) finger friendly sized buttons.
Technically, the FLV plugin is illegal according to Adobe, as you're not supposed to be able to play it in a program OTHER than an Adobe player; basically, running an FLV in something other than the Adobe Flash Player is a violation of some of their terms of use.
However, I will say this - CorePlayer's CoreTheque database is quite promising, especially if they make good on some of the things they were saying it could do. Plus, they're looking at downloading podcasts from within CorePlayer with future releases... which, if you listen to those, will put it heads-and-shoulders above TCPMP when it comes to that specific functionality. That and AVCRP actually WORKS for me in CorePlayer, versus TCPMP.
I didn't call anybody any "names" -- I said your post was ignorant.
Its fine that you don't like Coreplayer, I'm not all that happy with it either. But you really need to go to the website and learn about what the product is and why the developers took the path they did. You don't know enough about any of it to make these comments, so it comes off as you are just badmouthing it for the sake of badmouthing. Go to the site, understand what the team is doing, then come back and give your criticism.
Thank you! I was just going to same the same (about name calling)..and add that it's very obvious that you (ryusoma) have not tried Coreplayer on your device(s).
No way will I ever buy software from anyone that does not offer a trial version. Especially when these folks have repeatedly (in the past) promised one.
What's up with that?
Makes one wonder why they won't make a trial version available.
sparky2: From what I recall, they're planning on a trial version when 1.2 or 1.3 shows up, when the player's fairly feature-complete with everything they'd intended to toss into it. This is also supposed to be the time that BetaPlayer, the free version, will show up as well.
And given how many of the features they're trying to put into CorePlayer are currently still not implemented, I can understand their reasons for not wanting to put out a trial version yet (having half the options screens missing till 1.01 for example).
For the record, 1.1.1 build 1600 is out, which includes the ability to disable CoreTheque and have the old playlist option back, along with a few other improvement, as requested by many users.
For the record, 1.1.1 build 1600 is out, which includes the ability to disable CoreTheque and have the old playlist option back, along with a few other improvement, as requested by many users.
Good to know, I haven't checked the site since I downloaded 1.1
This is really kinda sad though, the developers were so pumped about the new playlist manager. I am totally in the group that just can't figure it out, and find it to be a total PITA. CoreTheque might be cool if it was on a PC, or part of some home entertainment system, but I think it is waaaaay too complex for a PDA.
Kudos to them for giving us the option to disable it, however. :approve:
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