The Core Pocket Media Player
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| 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 media player. Supported operating systems include Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Palm OS and Symbian OS. In 2006, CoreCodec plans on renaming TCPMP to BetaPlayer and will expand on the supported platforms by releasing BREW, .NET, Linux (GTK+), Linux (QT), Linux (QTopia), and Apple Computer's Mac OS X versions. The project seems to be stagnant, as there has not been a new version since November 2005, and the CoreCodec forums have had hardly any activity recently.
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, 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 ATI-powered Tapwave Zodiac.
