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).
It also Free Software.
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).
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?
It won't play nice in VGA, even with the brute force hack. The menus are in the correct position, but the play window isn't VGA aware - the window and play controls are off to the top left corner, and stay there even if a movie plays at full screen width. I can't find a full screen option either.
Second, it crashes...a lot.
Third, all the menu options look like a direct ripoff of TCPMP - are you using Picard's code? If so, do you have permission to do so?
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This *could* be a proper thing to do *if* they followed the GPL and various licensing fees. It's not clear that they are doing that, according the thread above.
The "best" is dependant on what you use it for and what features you want. For audio and video podcasting use, TCPMP is near the top of the list.
I've recently updated the Media Chart to include VLC and Nero Showtime Mobile (Beta), as well as availability of an AAC decoder for Pocket Music. http://www.feederreader.com/mediachart.html
TCPMP with the appropriate plugins can handle AVC video and AAC audio.
And if you want to read news, blogs, download audio and video podcasts with a TON of flexibility and integrated file management, try FeederReader. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Greg Smith
Author, FeederReader - Pocket PC *direct* RSS text, audio, video, podcasts www.FeederReader.com - Download on the Road
So if this is an offshoot of TCPMP... why is its performance so, um... bad??
The interface is nifty (dare I say "Mac OS X-like"?) and I hope they've resolved the AAC bureaucratic issues, but it plays videos much, MUCH slower than regular TCPMP on my iPaq 1940. This is not a super-fast PPC by any means, but both programs are running on the same unit (not simultaneously) and TCPMP just blows this away.
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