One of the best open-source programmers of the Palm OS and Pocket PC community is without question Picard, who shot to fame with his free multimedia player BetaPlayer (http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/). In the Corecodec forums Picard has now announced (http://corecodec.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=1673) the first unstable test release of The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) V0.65y for Pocket PC, which is the successor of BetaPlayer.

Download link (http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test)

Quote from Picard:
Don't even ask what's new, because although the interface didn't change much yet, there are a lot of low level changes and fixes.

Plugins:
AC3 is separated to a plugin (was in default install in previous versions). VorbisLQ is lower quality vorbis (which was default in previous versions). The player has now HQ be default, but you can install LQ if there is performance problem with your ogm video files. FFMPEG is just a small subset of ffmpeg library. Supports video formats, like h264, Sorenson3, mpeg1/2, mpeg4 with GMC,QPEL, but it's slower as "native" player decoders.

Does h264 mean it also supports MPEG4 AVC now, as used by Nero Digital?

... answered it myself and posted it also to the corecodec forums:


OK right... with the ffmpeg libraries installed it works! Wonderful. I used Nero Recode2 to encode a movie with the "Portable AVC" template and AAC audio and it plays 100% fine on my Dell Axim X50v!

Benchmark reveals average speed of 120.17% after playing the movie for 2 minutes. Only caveat: CPU speed stays high on 624MHz. Obviously it is more resource hungry than 'normal' mpeg4.

Picard, can you tell us how much you've optimized the ffmpeg libraries for the Intel 2700 chip? Also, if I play another file that would also run without those libraries, once I've them installed, would Betaplayer always use them or switch back to its native decoder?

Great work, as usual!

... and MPEG2/SVCD is also supported now thanks to the ffmpeg library. So cool!

picard is great. so do you recommend an upgrade from betaplayer, or wait for a while?

You can install both actally as long as you pick different install paths. Picard mentioned a severe bug in the current TCMP for PPC which he is working on fixing right now.

Alex what was the top bitrate you could use to play MPEG4 AVC-encoded movies on your X50v without frames skipping?

Hi i am using Mpef4 to watch movie on my pocket PC, i am using the TCPMP 0.66e but i show that is has MPEG4 AAc audio decoder problem...

How can i resolve this problem?
Please tell me the detail stet bu step how to install or plugin or wat.

Thanks

Hi i am using Mpef4 to watch movie on my pocket PC, i am using the TCPMP 0.66e but i show that is has MPEG4 AAc audio decoder problem...

How can i resolve this problem?
Please tell me the detail stet bu step how to install or plugin or wat.

Thanks
The latest version has the AAC plugin removed due to copyright violation issues. Temporary solution is to download the offending plugin from an "offshore" server. See more here (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4664).