Breaking News - TCPMP is finished!

07-23-06, 12:37 PM

UPDATE: Visit www.coreplayer.com to buy the latest version and www.corecodec.com/forum to view information related to the product and other versions. The original post can be viewed below:

Let me tell you what is going on and what you all should prepare for as we get ready for our 1.0 releases. But before that... let me break down each version of our player.

- TCPMP will be renamed back to BetaPlayer™ and will be our Open Source playground for testing new technologies for third party licensing.
- Giving birth will be the long awaited CorePlayer™ , it will be our Closed Source version with a lot of features not available in BetaPlayer.

TCPMP=BetaPlayer 1.0 but is more stable, has skins, has new streaming code for UDP/HTTP, supports our new CoreMAKE system (see www.coremake.com ) and has everything you loved in TCPMP.

On the otherhand while CorePlayer shares the code base of BetaPlayer it is targeted to a much more demanding segment that requires an expandable framework and supports anything you can throw at it (which it does).

CorePlayer will also feature: an entirely new GUI interface, Advanced Streaming, UPNP support, Integrated webserver, Client Database...

What OS's?: CE, Windows Mobile, Windows, .NET, Palm, Symbian, Brew, OS X, MacTel, Java, Linux GTK, Linux QT, Linux Qtopia, Linux Freescale.

Oh... I should have also stated the obvious... BetaPlayer is GPL licensed while CorePlayer is Closed Source.

CorePlayer also has several versions:

- CorePlayer Mobile
- CorePlayer Desktop
- CorePlayerX Web Browser plug-in for IE, FireFox, Netscape, Mozilla and Opera 9
- CorePlayer Embedded, allows you to add our player into third party applications running CE and Windows.
- CorePlayer Multimedia Engine is the future audio/video in games (more info later)
- CorePlayer DS is a Directshow wrapper version of CorePlayer Desktop... it allows you to harness the power of directshow and use it with the CP framework.
- CorePlayer PMP

BetaPlayer will come with all the Open Source decoders. But CorePlayer comes with our own decoders we have been developing over the past 18 months which will vary on the product, they are;

- CoreAVC
- CoreASP
- CoreVC1
- CoreAAC
- CoreMP3
- CoreDVD
- CoreAC3
- CoreDTS
- WMA
- WMV

The only other source that is allowed under a closed source license that we use are:

Focusbyte Tuny Engine License
Tuny Engine, copyright (c) 2006, Focusbyte.

zlib (C) 1995-2003 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler

MatroskaParser by Haali
Copyright (c) 2004 Mike Matsnev. All Rights Reserved.

Ogg Vorbis 'Tremor' integer playback codec
Copyright (c) 2002, Xiph.org Foundation

Intel 2700G
Copyright (c) 2004, Intel Corporation, All rights reserved.

Peal
Copyright (c) 2004 Greg Parker. All rights reserved.

Mobile Stream Rotation extension
Public API for the Mobile Stream Rotation extension.

I can report that the 0.81 beta that has been going around is a complete fake.... and not a good fake either ;-/

The CorePlayer Technology Demo will be released next week, however its by invitation only and CorePlayer 1.0 will be a few weeks afterwards.

We will be making announcements soon on our OEM side of things once our new corporate website launchs and we bring up CorePlayer.com.

Pocketbrain · 07-23-06, 12:46 PM

Oooooo, coreplayer!
I will keep my v.0.72RC1 for now, but look forward to exploring the new features!

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07-23-06, 01:39 PM

New features that i'm hoping for are streaming, and support for real media files, so that darn realplayer can be put to bed.

oh, by the way, links to preview sites are at www.coreplayer.com and www.tcpmp.com

ingope · 07-23-06, 02:21 PM

I really love the tcpmp. Now it turns into a commercial Version?
Ok let´s see.

Reillychem · 07-23-06, 02:29 PM

Yeah! I hope that there will be many great skins!

Bagelsnbrew · 07-23-06, 05:02 PM

Great news! Thanks for the heads up.

But what's the point of the poll? Also, since GSplayer and Mortplayer don't do video, why are they even included in the poll that has no point being here?

**ksong12** · 07-23-06, 05:26 PM

Oh no! Its commercial now! I loved the free TCPMP!!

P.S. Can we download the CorePlayer? I noticed that they had browser plugins. I want to replace my FoxyTunes, its slow.

Dood · 07-23-06, 05:36 PM

I wonder how the .81 beta that's going around fits in with this.

**Rishad** · 07-23-06, 05:43 PM

I think the major improvement in .81 is that it does subtitles. There is a nice looking skin included with it but I don't really see an option how to use it.

Dood · 07-23-06, 07:18 PM

That and the included aac plugin. I found the skin setting, it's at the bottom of the 'lyrics' page. It doesn't work properly on my device though- the skin only covers a quarter of the screen...

**Rishad** · 07-23-06, 08:56 PM

I see. Interesting choice where they put the skin settings. I'm guessing the skin you have is QVGA only. Try modifying the bmp images (make them VGA) and see if that works.

thebigbread · 07-23-06, 09:04 PM

Cool, I wanna see whats on the new tcpmp, & if it says "coming in july" its gotta be soon, only 9 days left

spunker88 · 07-23-06, 09:24 PM

Is it going to be free?
They are supporting many formats! All the way back to win 3.51! I thought win 95 was back far and most software dont support win 98 anymore.

Dood · 07-23-06, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by akheron

I see. Interesting choice where they put the skin settings. I'm guessing the skin you have is QVGA only. Try modifying the bmp images (make them VGA) and see if that works.

That was it, thx.)

There are some numbers (track position?) that aren't displaying correctly though.. oh well.

Pocketbrain · 07-23-06, 09:48 PM

http://tcpmp.corecodec.org is still the same!!

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