CorePlayer Mobile v1.2.3 Released

[Kris Kumar]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://software.smartphonethoughts.com/product.asp?id=8935&n=CorePlayer-Mobile-for-SmartPhone' target='_blank'>http://software.smartphonethoughts....-for-SmartPhone</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>&quot;CorePlayer&trade; Mobile is at the center of the CoreCodec&trade; Universe for playing multimedia on your mobile phone, portable media players, PDA, GPS or convergence device. CorePlayer&trade; is truly the next-generation in multimedia playback. Its simple yet powerful interface and advanced features is designed to empower the CoreCodec&trade; community.&nbsp;See why the Chicago Suntimes times says that it, &quot;actually has a user interface designed with bipeds in mind&quot; and why companies like Joost are using CorePlayer technology!&quot;</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/500/spt/auto/1208519480.usr266.jpg" border="1" alt="" /></p><p>If you are looking for mobile media player, then look no further. CorePlayer is the way to go. It supports tons of audio-video codecs and streaming techniques. It even has YouTube support, which I haven't tried out yet. So in short it overcomes almost all the limitations of the Windows Media player on your smart phone. Check out the features <a target="_blank" href="http://software.smartphonethoughts.com/product.asp?id=8935&amp;n=CorePlayer-Mobile-for-SmartPhone">over here,</a> and if you are interested you can buy it for a special price of $24.95. The special price is for today only, so hurry up; after the special promotion is over the price will be $29.95. [Affiliate]</p>

[sparky99]

No try, no buy. They have yet to offer a trial, since they became coreplayer. Methinks they would sell more copies if people could try it out.

[acharn]

my At&t tilt already has a media player. spend $25 on something i have for free? no thanks.

[Twain]

Am I the only person who thinks it odd that among the numerous formats that the player supports, .FLV files don't appear to be supported? Seems to me that a modern player that claims to support multiple formats must support .FLV files to be marketable. Am I wrong on this??

[Rocco Augusto]

Am I the only person who thinks it odd that among the numerous formats that the player supports, .FLV files don't appear to be supported? Seems to me that a modern player that claims to support multiple formats must support .FLV files to be marketable. Am I wrong on this??

I would say yes, but that is only because I feel very strongly that Flash and video should never go together. :)

For those wondering why you might like to purchase this application, it is because it plays a majority of popular video formats that are not included by default in Windows Mobile, like Xvid and Divx. This program isn't for everyone, but there are those of us that find it useful :)

[Phillip Dyson]

Where can I find the difference between 1.2.2 and 1.2.3?

[Rocco Augusto]

http://coreplayer.com/content/view/23/1/

[Menneisyys]

It even has YouTube support, which I haven't tried out yet.

Check out my related, just-posted Bible: http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/showthread.php?p=683158

[me]

No try, no buy. They have yet to offer a trial, since they became coreplayer. Methinks they would sell more copies if people could try it out.

Yep, that pisses me off as well.

It started out as great freeware open source media player named Betaplayer, developed by a guy somewhere in Europe (I think Hungary) who calls himself Picard. Great guy, he responded quickly to user's suggestions in forums, and incorporated their suggestions in the next release.

Then it was somehow appropriated by the Core folks (I don't know if they bought it from Picard or what), and it continued to improve (still by Picard) as TCPMP (The Core Pocket Media Player), still free. (I'm sure you could still find TCPMP available for download on the web. A great free media player, plays almost anything, including Matroska, etc.)

But then Core decided to go commercial with it. It has been over a year now, since they started the commercial Coreplayer. (No argument with that, as people need to eat and pay the bills.) When they first announced its release, however, they said a trial version would become available concurrently. They also announced a new open source version called---------Betaplayer! (They have a web site called betaplayer.com, which has announced: "Coming Soon", for more than a year now.) When asked about the trial version of Coreplayer, they said that was coming soon, but in more than a year, it has not come out. (What could be so difficult, about slapping a time restriction on an app, to stop working in a month, if not registered?)

So, they just advertise how great they are, and expect people to buy it, without trying it out, although almost every other mobile app has a trial version. (And what absurd ad copy--"the center of the Corecodec Universe" (is that somewhere close to heaven ;-) ), and "empower the Corecodec community". (Wow, mom, I want to be a member of that wonderful community! Better buy the app!)

A lot of people complained about the earlier versions, saying it was not nearly as good as the freeware TCPMP. (Perhaps that's why they don't want a trial version, as people wouldn't buy it.) I tried one on a friend's phone, and it was pretty bad.

I don't know if this newer version is better, however. But without being able to try it out, as I can do with almost all other mobile apps, I am not going to fork out that dough. The price is also high, for a mobile app. Other mobile media players, like Conduit's, etc., cost more like$14.95 or $19.95. So, even at this "special bargain discount" of $24.95, this app is no bargain.

(By the way, I don't know what happened to Picard. The last times I looked at the corecodec forums, where he used to communicate with users a lot about TCPMP, I never saw any more posts by him, basically since Coreplayer was released. (I haven't looked there recently though.) I wonder if he got fed up with what the Core folks did with his product, and left the project? Anyone know?)

[me]

For those wondering why you might like to purchase this application, it is because it plays a majority of popular video formats that are not included by default in Windows Mobile, like Xvid and Divx. This program isn't for everyone, but there are those of us that find it useful :)

Actually, not true. If the Xvid or Divx-compressed movie is in .avi format, WMP should play it, no? If the movie is in a .mkv or .ogm container, then I don't think WMP will play it.

However---you can still download the free TCPMP, which will play all those files, and all types of music files. Excellent free media player.

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Actually, not true. If the Xvid or Divx-compressed movie is in .avi format, WMP should play it, no? If the movie is in a .mkv or .ogm container, then I don't think WMP will play it.

Uh, no - the avi format is just a container:

http://wiki.videolan.org/AVI

While WMP will recognise and try to play the file, it still can't do so without the proper codec.