Turn your Palm into a media player...free!

[neoufo51]

If you have a Palm OS device with Palm 5.2.1...get this!

Its reported to be the fastest media player for Palm OS and...its FREE!

Stop paying for those media players out there and turn your Palm device into an mp3 player or on the go video player.

The Core Pocket Media Player plays mp3, mpc, ac3, mp4/aac, ogg, avi/divx/xvid, psp, matroska, camcorder formats, with more formats coming each day. I was just playing the Harry Potter 4 trailer on my device in PSP format and its plays flawlessly.

http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/

Test versions are here...more media formats are being added as we speak.

http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/

Changelog for the latest version:

version 0.65: 2005-05-01

!Windows version unusable

+Treo650 keyboard backlight turn off in fullscreen

+plugin architecture (modified gcc used for compiling)

+ac3 plugin for palmos

+musepack (mpc) plugin for palmos

-changing to 'Unfiled' launcher catalog

-mp4 reader bugfix

-screen turn off bugfix

-save last position fix with a/v offset

-many minor bugfixes

-fix d-pad direction following video

[Japlabot]

But what is the maximum possible storage capacity of a Palm Pilot to store these media files?

[neoufo51]

But what is the maximum possible storage capacity of a Palm Pilot to store these media files?

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Why the size of your SD card of course. I watched an entire episode of LOST on the way from LA today and I had enough room left on the card to put some music in there. If you have a 1 gig SD card, you can play a gig of music and video on your Palm.

The player itself...depends since you have to install plugins. My installation is 650k.

[Galley]

But what is the maximum possible storage capacity of a Palm Pilot to store these media files?

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I believe the file size limit is a little more than 2 gigs.

[neoufo51]

it depends on your device, but SD cards can be added.

[mrp04]

wow palm users think that this is soo coool? This use to be called betaplayer and has been out on PPC for quite a while

[neoufo51]

wow palm users think that this is soo coool? This use to be called betaplayer and has been out on PPC for quite a while

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Uh...the point is that it wasnt on Palm before and now it is.

[smaulz]

umm, there have been media players out for the Palm for a long time... not sure what the big deal is. Don't get me wrong, this one looks cool and all, but it's not really anything new.

[Tungsten T]

umm, there have been media players out for the Palm for a long time... not sure what the big deal is. Don't get me wrong, this one looks cool and all, but it's not really anything new.

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This is free, lite, and open to alot of formats

[neoufo51]

umm, there have been media players out for the Palm for a long time... not sure what the big deal is. Don't get me wrong, this one looks cool and all, but it's not really anything new.

585971047[/snapback]

Yep, but this one is free and supports formats that had yet to be supported by the other media players, such as matroska, mpc, and ffmpeg.

EDIT: Also, video doesnt play very well on the commercial players. This player is playing video flawlessly and at least 2X faster than other video players I've tried. I dont really have any use for the video player, but its nice to see and the ability to store a gig of music and listen to it is pretty cool if you ask me.

Edited May 25, 2005 by neoufo51

[smaulz]

I guess the "free" part is a big deal. I didn't really have any trouble with the video, but I'll definitely give this one a shot to see how it stacks up. Either way, thanks for the heads up. ;)

[neoufo51]

Anytime.

[Iamit2900]

SOB that's nice. I wish I had a Palm PDA. Ah well.