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Originally Posted by http://www.sompy.com/smplayer.html
The Sompy Media Player is for Pocket PC(Phone). It has built in codecs for video files (AVI, DivX), MPEG4 files (MP4, M4A), MPEG movie and audio files (MPEG, MPG, MPV, DAT, MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA), Matroska files (MKV, MKA), Ogg Vorbis files (OGG, OGM) and AAC files (AAC).
Supported file containers
AVI(*.avi),Matroska(*.mkv,*.mka), MP3/MP4(*.mp3,*.mp4,*.m4a), gg Media(*.ogg,*.ogm), ASF(*.asf)
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Thanks for the heads up!
Here's part of what frustrates me about Video Players: no one tells you EXACTLY what they can play.
Bonus! This is one of the first pages I've seen that differentiate between "codecs" and "containers". Both are important for reading various media files.
I think, though, that it gets it wrong in a few places: AVI is not a codec, it is a container format. And "MP4" does not necessarily specify a codec, although it is often a shorthand for "MPEG-4 Part 2" as opposed to "AVC" (also known as "MPEG-4 Part 10")
What would be really useful is if we could get a chart of "MPEG4" compatibility that includes:
MPEG-4 Part 2 Video comprised of 21 different "profiles". Which profiles are supported?
MPEG-4 Part 10 "AVC" video encoding (again, several profiles)
MPEG-4 Part 14 File Format
MPEG-4 Part 3 ("AAC") audio encoding
Also, it seems bizarre to me that an AAC decoder is free.
DivX (along with XVid and 3ivx codecs) is at minimum a subset of MPEG4 Part 2 video codec and at maximun an intersection between MPEG4 Part 2 and a proprietary codec.
Anyone care to try Sompy on some MPEG-4 Part 2/3 and MPEG-4 Part 10/3 encoded files and report your results?