Filed under: Audio, Video, Windows, Windows Mobile, Palm, Commercial, Freeware, Open Source
CorePlayer updates to 1.04, almost as good as the free version
by Brad Linder Nov 29th 2006
CoreCodec's The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) has long been regarded as one of the best multimedia players for Palm and Windows Mobile devices. But what started off as a free and open source program called BetaPlayer eventually ran into some problems. For example, TCPMP had a reputation for being able to handle pretty much any video you could throw at it, no matter what codecs it used. Of course, some of those codecs were proprietary, and if you really want to include support for them in your program, you have to pay a licensing fee.So the makers of TCPMP split the project in two. A new commercial program called CorePlayer was released with support for licensed third party plugins, and work began on an open-source stripped down version called BetaPlayer.
But here's the thing, CorePlayer 1.0 had all sorts of pretty new menu buttons. But it couldn't handle all the same files that TCPMP could. And many users reported stability issues on their Palm and Windows Mobile devices.
Apparently many of those problems have been addressed with the recently released 1.04 update to CorePlayer. The update adds features that had been missing since the last TCPMP release, hot key management and playlist functions. And there've been a number of bug fixes. But it seems like if you want a stable multimedia player than can handle most any type of audio or video file, TCPMP is still the better option. Hopefully by the time CorePlayer gets to version 1.5 it will be worth updating. But if CoreCodec really wants users to pay $20 for the program, they may have to stop offering TCPMP.
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