Gabor Kovacs has just released TCPMP 0.66 (ex-BetaPlayer), the next generation media player for both PalmOS 5 and PocketPCs. BetaPlayer has been one of the most downloaded applications in the WindowsCE world and now PalmOS 5 & Smartphone users will also be able to enjoy DivX, mpeg1-4, ogg and more. We gave TCPMP a whirl and we found that it’s much faster than before when playing WMV on PocketPC (where it used to be a framedrop on our Axim X5-A05, now it doesn’t), however WMV playback is buggy on the Axim x50v (ROM A04) if the 2700G driver is used (had to soft-reset the PDA, GDI was more compatible). DivX plays great though, on all of our devices including PalmOS (very usable 320×240 DivX playback on our 126 Mhz Sony Clie TH-55). Screenshots here, here and here.
PalmOS & WindowsCE Get High Quality, Versalite, Free Video Player
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I noticed that vlc has a beta version of their player for pocket pc. Has anyone tried it?
Its good to know that there are more video players than when I had a pocket pc.
>vlc has a beta version of their player for pocket pc. Has anyone tried it?
I have. It’s extremely slow and buggy. It is still alpha quality.
Slashdot sucks and now we need to f-ing register .
THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE MESSAGEBOARDS.
PURE CRAP.
ALOT OF PEOPLE WILL JUST STOP POSTING HERE AND FIND ANOTHER PLACE.
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This guy should think on an easier, catchier name for his software. Yeah BetaPlayer was an unfortunate name, but TCPMP is even more so…
I tried it on a Clie Peg NX60U. It works, but I haven’t been able to coax sound out of mpgs. Anyone else seen this? Other than that it’s really cool to see video running fairly smoothly on the palmtop, especially when one remembers how barely usable quicktime video was on say, a mac SE30.
-HH
Will it have a version for Windows Mobile OS?
Didn’t Nero release a media player for Pocket PC? How does that one stack up against the rest of the crowd?
I sure do love those versalite things. Before modding down my comment, could you please fix the spelling in your headline?
What do you mean by get? We had it for a long time on the PocketPC, and hardware acceleration months ago, it only recently made it’s way to the palm platform so you can say Palm FINALLY gets High Quality, Versalite, Free Video Player like Windows Mobile has for long.