As you probably know, the TCPMP project is dead: it has been replaced by the commercial CorePlayer project. Unfortunately, no HPC version of this new player has been announced
( only WM2003+WM5 for PPCs and Smartphones
). A GPL successor of TCPMP has been planned, but we don't know if it will still support older devices and HPCs... Even if it does, it will only have a few free basic plugins: most advanced plugins will be payware.
So, I have made an all-in-one distribution to support most Multimedia Files on HPCs. This distribution is based on the latest TCPMP build
(0.72 RC1
) made by Picard and the CorePlayer team, with several changes and add-ons.
The following changes have been made to the original standard package:
-1
) brand new artwork: new icons, news buttons
(basic skin
) to update the boring TCPMP look-and-feel,
-2
) the following official plugins have been included: ffmpeg, ac3
-3
) added: unofficial AAC plugin
-4
) added: Windows Media 9 plugins for MIPS and ARM
( this is a required component to play all WMV files with sound on CE versions lower than 4.20
)
The following CAB files should work with all CE 2.11+ devices; however, some components may not work correctly on old devices
( Windows Media playback has not been tested on CE2.11
).
The supported video file containers are: AVI, MOV
(quicktime
), WMV, MP4, MPG.
I also included k-matsu's GAPI as an extra package: Most new ARM devices can use the excellent GAPI implementation made by WinCE Soft
(http://www.wincesoft.de/html/gapi_for_hpc_s.html
).
However it is quite difficult to find a working GX.dll for MIPS and CE 2.11 devices.
The included GAPI version works very well with this media player.
Download the full distribution here:
http://www.upload2.net/page/download/WwiOlBQUGjnMej3/HPC+Media&...
I didn't include the source code in the Zip file: if you want it, I can post it, but you can directly download Picard's code here:
http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/
Some talented programmers could probably continue the development of this media player: even without Codec programming, it is certainly possible to improve the UI...