NEW: The Core Pocket Media Player v0.71

[BetaBoy]

Things have progressed alot since our last Official release v0.66 of TCPMP a few months ago as you can see below with the changelog. Adding Enhanced Podcast Support for Matroska and MP4, A new Windows version, is now a picture viewer, h.263 support, h.264 support amung many of the changes...

Within the next month we are adding platform support for Symbian devices, RTSP/UDP support, Skins, and a Media Manager. Linux and Linux Mobile are next in line for Q1 2006.

Download link is below, here is the complete changelog:

+Speex audio decoder support
+Epson graphics controller mode (Nexio S150/S151/S155/S160/XP30)
+Nexio XP40 DirectDraw overlay support
+mjpeg gray-scale support
+minimal jpeg, tiff, png image file support
+better support for enhanched podcasts (m4a with image slideshow)
+coverart support for music files
+ffmpeg library updated
+support for low resolution decoding (video quality)
+h263 elementary stream support
+PalmOS: advanced opitons dialog
+PalmOS: T|X LCD tweak options
+WinCE: Axis Network Camera MJPEG streaming support
+WinCE: RGB support for 2700G (example WMV playback on X50v)
+Win32: ascii console video mode
+Win32: screen saver disabling during video playback
-AAC removed from official binaries because of intellectual property considerations
-Matroska codec info handling fix (h.264)
-MatroskaParser library updated to version 1.47
-ID3v2 fix in rawaudio
-yuv blitting fix (intel 2700g, sonyhhe effected)
-ogg icecast fix
-avi opendl mode out of sync fix
-large jpeg file support
-song title updated with audio streaming fix
-portrait pre-rotate disabled for coverart and podcasts
-OGG tags as UTF-8 coding
-some third party libraries replaced
-avi files with ogg vorbis stream fix
-h263 decoding fix + fallback to ffmpeg when format not supported
-s263 (with 3gp) fix and support for h263 extended width/height
-safe string handling (overflow protection)
-mpeg4 decoder fixes
-WinCE: http async mode (connection loss should not freeze the player)
-WinCE: http avi playback fix
-WinCE: http streaming emulate wmp10 identification (for ORB server)
-WinCE: http site parsing and listing fixes
-WinCE: file association IE auto-download flag only for playlists
-WinCE: options/audio menu disappearing fix
-WinCE: raw framebuffer mode only for WM2003SE and later
-WinCE: codepage handling fixes
-WinCE: ATI Imageon driver memory leak bug tweak
-WinCE: backlight handling fix
-WinCE: HTTP streaming fixes
-WinCE: Raw Framebuffer usage with QVGA smartphones
-WinCE: fix for MIPS VR41XX tweaks on WinCE 2.xx
-WinCE: skip installing official gx.dll for new HPC devices with aygshell, but no GAPI support
-WinCE: WMV9 advanced profile support via DMO interface (only with WMP10)
-WinCE: file associations fix
-WinCE: stereo mode (swapped,join,left,right) fix
-PalmOS: screen blanking audio pause fix
-PalmOS: pre-rotate portrait movies advanced option
-PalmOS: m3u/pls playlist absolute path fix
-PalmOS: stack overflow fix with some vorbis files
-PalmOS: adpcm and uLaw audio codecs moved to tcpmp.prc install
-PalmOS: audio buffer fix (music head not lost anymore after open)
-PalmOS: Treo650/T5/LifeDrive program exit crash fix
-PalmOS: sysAppLaunchCmdOpenDB launch fix
-PalmOS: external launching fixed (auto fullscreen playback)
-PalmOS: T|T storage memory tweak fix
-PalmOS: better low memory handling with mpeg1 files

As a side enote... We will be at CES to demo with several partners we are licensing too. If you'd like are are getting together Friday January 7th for a little pow-wow to talk about TCPMP and the Digital Media. Email me betaboy AT corecodec DOT com for more info.

Download at: http://corecodec.org/projects/tcpmp/

[Sirber]

Sir Yes Sir! :D

[Sirber]

Problem: Can't add URL in the playlist :(

[BetaBoy]

Sirber.. I remember an issue like this... but I thought it was fixed a few releases ago. Let me look into it... what platform? Palm, PPC, Windows?

[Razorholt]

Will it be possible to embed your player in IE, Firefox, etc... ?


Thanks,
- Dan

[Sirber]

Sirber.. I remember an issue like this... but I thought it was fixed a few releases ago. Let me look into it... what platform? Palm, PPC, Windows?PPC 2003 :)

[GhengisKhan]

Razorholts, that's already been done (although it's not perfect just yet - CES preview). Go here for the ActiveX TCPMP: http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/tcpmpx/index.htm

While we're still on the subject... Here is a post I put on the AVC plugin thread (that probably shouldn't really have been there):

@ Picard (or Betaboy, or whoever can fix this): I was messing around with the ActiveX player and found a small bug. One of the JPEG images I tried to view wasn't working - a dialog pops up that says: ! 1196444237 . I click O.K. and it goes away, but I can't see my picture. The picture displays perfectly in "Windows Picture and FAX viewer" though. I'll see if I can upload somewhere if you would like...

By the way, just as a reminder, the ActiveX site crashes my browser every time I close it or go to another page. Please fix this! I don't like my browser crashing.

Good luck with this problem,

GhengisKhan

[lexor]

so yeah... am I blind or is there no way to get the seek bar in full screen mode?

[BetaBoy]

goto options an uncheck the 'autohide' bar. We are adding a right click menu to plug-in and to many of the things that will be available in the options. This is also being done so... for example.... you have a 'Matroska Video' with multiple streams... you can select the correct stream needed.

Our goal with this plugin is nothing short of making the most advanced web browser 'media player' plugin available today.

What is coming next taking this plugin and making it a NEXT-GEN media player that loads in the web browser and can 'go with you' as you browse the web. I will inform everyone more details on this soon. In the meantime... we will finish phase one of this within the next two weeks, i'll post an announcement about it and then look for some bug fixes before we go live with it.

[BetaBoy]

Razorholts, that's already been done (although it's not perfect just yet - CES preview). Go here for the ActiveX TCPMP: http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/tcpmpx/index.htm

While we're still on the subject... Here is a post I put on the AVC plugin thread (that probably shouldn't really have been there):

Good luck with this problem,

GhengisKhan

GK... is the JPEG you are opening progressive? If so the M/JPEG decoder in TCPMP doesn't support those atm :(

I'll ping picard on adding it.

[lexor]

goto options an uncheck the 'autohide' bar.
was that answer to my question? if so I can't find anything neither in Options nor in Options->Settings of TCMPM.

and btw, what plugin are you talking about? isn't TCPMP a stand alone player?

[BetaBoy]

Lexor... sorry... I thought you were talking about TCPMPx. A new version of TCPMP for windows is underway. It will be called 'The Core Professional Media Player' and will have the option you are talking about.

[CruNcher]

realy exciting especialy the media browser idea is something i missed for a long time in my browser all those video plugins that you won't need anymore to think about it is a real pleasure :)
Displaying all the Video/Audio content in a frame either on the top, bottom, right or left and a "Fullscreen Browse mode" that shows all the videos in fullscreen as selectable thumbnails if you hover over them in both modes they play a little preview of 10s (can be defined in the options) :) that would rock and i think is a very unique way and actually doesn't exist in that way as a browser plugin yet.

[lexor]

dunno if it's a known bug, but TCMPM treats .mpg files as folders. even if it doesn't support mpeg1 playback, it still shouldn't see mpg as a folder which you can go in to (but is empty).

[GhengisKhan]

A new TCPMP test version finally arrives (over at: http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/ ). And with a bunch of changes. Also to note are the new plugins - FLAC and WavPack. I am sure many people have been waiting for these.

Good work Picard! :D

Changelog

version 0.71i
+nsv container support (but no vp3/vp6 codec...)
-installer file naming changed
-playlist shuffle mode fix
-buffering fix for very high bitrate movies
-avi audio timing fix with incompatible files
-PalmOS: pixel aspect option in preferences dialog
-WinCE: asf http streaming stream selection
-WinCE: XScale driver fix (for O2 Atom. still needs testing)
-WinCE: fix X50v WM5 black display after power on
-WinCE: telling "go online" to OS before http connection
-WinCE: better handling of special hotkeys (record, menu, green, red phone buttons)
-WinCE: ATI Imageon 3200 "Keep ATI driver active" option (maybe helps with crashes...)
-WinCE: DirectDraw mode fixes (+disabled with some devices...)
-Win32: DirectDraw clipping blit when overlay not available
-Win32: DirectDraw overlay color space option in settings

GhengisKhan 8)

[BetaBoy]

TTA was added too... but 'that' codec does not count...

[CruNcher]

a importan change that's not in the changelog happened in the ffmpeg plugin it got a speedup cure, not yet @ ffdshow speed but much better then before :)

[slavickas]

using new player and old avc plugin it crashes playing NSV with H.264 video...

[BetaBoy]

Dont bother with any NSV content atm... we are reviewing the licensing terms and it looks like 'officially' we will not even support it. So its TBD.

[bond]

Dont bother with any NSV content atm... we are reviewing the licensing terms and it looks like 'officially' we will not even support it. So its TBD.you need to pay for offering nsv support?

[Wedgedkc]

I don't know if this is a known issue or not but I cannot get the tcpmp player to run as a normal user (i.e. without admin privileges). Great player otherwise, thanks!

[BetaBoy]

We are looking into the issue... thx

[Wedgedkc]

just posting to confirm that the new j version fixed the permission problem. i can now run tcpmp as a normal user. thanks a bunch.

[BetaBoy]

no problem.... thx for reporting it.

[kurt]

Thx for the new version!

version 0.71k
+aiff uncompressed audio file support
+asap plugin (http://asap.sourceforge.net)
-matroska seeking issue fix
-WinCE: XScale driver resource allocation fix when XScale not used
-WinCE: http listing of non-ascii filenames fix
-WinCE: Treo700w keyboard backlight disabled in fullscreen (second try)
http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/

[Sharktooth]

i couldnt follow the development of tcmp lately, but i noticed the avc plugin was removed for IP reasons.
i thought it shared the same code as coreavc... what are those problems?

[BetaBoy]

no problems... it was released as a few test builds... the code bases are 'almost' the same but do differ somewhat.

[Sirber]

TCPMP Version 0.71k Benchmark Results

Average Speed 688.03%
Video Frames 1999
Audio Samples 3779438
Amount of Data 6882 KB

Bench. Time 0:12.117
Bench. Frame Rate 164.96
Bench. Sample Rate 311905
Bench. Data Rate 4.7 Mbit/s

Original Time 1:23.374
Original Frame Rate 23.98
Original Sample Rate 44100
Original Data Rate 676 kbit/s

URL e:\incomplete\Naruto\E001.mkv
Size 69378280
Platform Windows
OS Version 5.01
Clock speed 1794 Mhz
Video output DirectDraw 1280x960 32bits Lookup
Video zoom 640x480 -> 1280x960
Audio output Wave Output 44100Hz 16Bits 2Ch.
640x480 x264 with 32kbps aacPlus v2
Kinda nice :D

[Caroliano]

Will TCPMP ever suport softsubs? At least .srt and vobsub. Or only with an external DirectShowFilter like VobSub.

I'd like also suport for drag'n'drop videos over it. Is ankward always go in "open...", etc.

And add more keyboard shortcuts, like page-up and page-down for toggle between chapters, and much more.

Despite this, TCPMP is my favourite media player right now! Very tiny, fast and simple.

PS: requests for Win32 version.

[BetaBoy]

yes for subs in our windows and Linux versions... but it will not be till a 1.xx version. drag n drop yes too... the Windows version you see now will be not be what you see in upcoming versions.

[kurt]

just noticed an update
version 0.72RC1
+general equalizer (volume normalization optional)
+mpeg4 gmc and qpel asp features supported (except on mips/sh3)
http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/

[BetaBoy]

yep... new revamped EQ... added QPEL and GMC to CoreASP.... but we still need to add Interlacing mode and Post Processing to call it complete and release our Directshow decoder for it.

[kurt]

new version (rc1) with new ffmpeg plugin causes blockiness on some xvid clips. no problems with previous version (and previous ffmpeg plugin)

for instance this one: http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=833BKTWR (10mb, 720p)
It's a clip from Selur, if you need the XviD settings I'll ask him...
(I guess it's with qpel, gmc enabled)

[CruNcher]

with rc1 every xvid clip should be playbacked with CoreASP first, did you removed mpeg4.plg to force libavcodec playback ?
yep it's definatley a CoreASP problem looks like a Buffer problem again :P on second playback everything is fine

[kurt]

with rc1 every xvid clip should be playbacked with CoreASP first, did you removed mpeg4.plg to force libavcodec playback ?
ah, that did the trick :)

[CruNcher]

sure it works but it's just a workaround and no real solution with the CoreASP decoder you can save alot of CPU cycles :P

[Dethis]

Hello Core team, nice player and unbelievable speed for avc content. Bravo

I recently tried some clips from the NBA2006 All Star Weekend coded in avc 320X240 in .mp4 container (probably coded for playback with Sony PSP), and i can play them perfectly with ffdshow h264 decoder but not with TCPMP or CoreAVCdecoder.ax. I mean they dont play at all (sometimes only 16 first frames are played) or even crash TCPMP and MPC.

Here is a link to a 15sec clip

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=20VYGH2YHXX2B2DVDG4EF22ISF

[CruNcher]

@Dethis
no playback problems with your sample and latest TCPMP here

[BetaBoy]

mmm... Win32 version does not like it... CruNcher... was that using the PPC version?

[Dethis]

@Dethis
no playback problems with your sample and latest TCPMP here

With latest do you mean Tcpmp 0.72RC1(25or22/02/2006), avc.plg & aac.plg v.0.71h-09/01/2006 or 17/01/2006 (from Tcpmpx).
I tryied all of them and ..... no!! All (mentioned above) NBA clips take too much time to load and then they start auto-playing (i haven't checked the "Play at start") but only for 5-20 frames and suddenly go to the end of time.

I'm getting crazy now

** Of cource all is fine if i use the ffmpeg.plg instead of the avc.plg

Edit: OK Thanks to Betaboy i'm not getting crazy.

PS Betaboy if you need a longer clip just tell me.

[CruNcher]

ah ok jep same problem here ops :P

[BetaBoy]

Packed B-Frames again... in an MP4 file? mmmm

[bond]

valid mp4 files cant have a packed bitstream

[BetaBoy]

Thats what I said... i'e sent this off to devel to look at it.

[Wedgedkc]

in the latest win32 rc1 version:
if i launch the player, my space bar stops working in all other applications. it works fine in 0.71k

[Fileburner]

hi everyone,
I would like to thank core team for this great player it's very constumisable and very light on resources I realy like it, but when I play X264 encoded videos they keep freezing any Idea ? I have CPU P4 1.7 Ghz videofile Res 640*480 TCPMP 0.72RC1 with FFmpeg.plg (this video works fine with CoreAVC DS decoder)
srry for bothering about this little problem.
Thanx in advence.

[fakey]

Any plan on Matroska v2 support?
I tried 0.72RC1 but v2 file doesn't seem to work.

[Avish]

Is there any way I could use Directsound output? My Wave Output is not working properly. So can't get any sound at all.

And I noticed one strange behaviour while typing this post is that, When TCPMP is running in background I cannot use the Space button on my keyboard to type. & as soon as I close TCPMP, it starts to work again! Try it! :D

[BetaBoy]

Is there any way I could use Directsound output? My Wave Output is not working properly. So can't get any sound at all.

And I noticed one strange behaviour while typing this post is that, When TCPMP is running in background I cannot use the Space button on my keyboard to type. & as soon as I close TCPMP, it starts to work again! Try it! :D
DS output? No not atm. TCPMP does not use any DS framework. The space bar (I am assuming you are referring to windows) is a known bug and has been fixed internally but not released... it will be in CorePlayer 1.0.

[Wedgedkc]

Not sure if it's still useful to report issues here... Anyway, it seems like it's not possible to seek in very large(>4gb) avi(ODML)-files.