The Core Pocket Media Player

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The Core Pocket Media Player
Developed by	CoreCodec, Inc.
Initial release	?
Stable release	0.71 (23 November 2005) _[+/−]
Preview release	0.72 RC1 (2006-02-22) _[+/−]
Written in	?
OS	Cross-platform
Available in	?
Genre	Media player
License	Open Source/Proprietary
Website	hpcfactor.com

The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) is a software media player. Supported operating systems include Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Smartphone, Palm OS and Symbian OS. It is not to be confused with The Core Media Player, a different media player.

In 2007, CoreCodec discontinued TCPMP and plans on renaming it to BetaPlayer and will expand on the supported platforms by releasing COM, .NET, Linux (GTK+), Linux (QT), Linux (QTopia), and Apple Computer's Mac OS X versions.^{[citation needed]} As of March 2008 and May 2008, the website at http://betaplayer.com/ is not yet functional and still lists a copyright date of 2006.

TCPMP supports many audio, video, and image formats, including AC3, HE-AAC, AMR, DivX, FLAC, H.263, H.264, JPEG, Monkey's Audio, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MP2, MP3, Musepack, MS-MPEG4-v3, PNG, Speex, TIFF, TTA, Vorbis, WAV, WavPack and XviD. It supports many container formats, including 3GP, ASF, AVI, Matroska, MPEG, OGG, OGM and QuickTime. Some formats, such as H.264, require a plugin, which may hamper performance.

TCPMP began as an open source player for Windows CE and Windows Mobile called Betaplayer. In 2005 the development team ported it to the Palm OS, Windows and Symbian operating systems.

CorePlayerX is the name of a web browser plug-in for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla and Opera 9 for Windows. Support for Apple Mac OS X/Safari and Linux/Firefox was to be introduced in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

CoreCode make available a free software version, under the GNU General Public License and plan to make available a proprietary OEM version of CorePlayer. Licensable proprietary components like the directshow H.264 video codec CoreAVC are now available.

TCPMP also has hardware accelerated playback for ATI and Intel 2700g mobiles, such as the Tapwave Zodiac and Dell Axim X50v.

TCPMP could be seen running on Morris O'Brian's Pocket PC on the popular television drama 24. During the episode that aired on February 26, 2007 (Day 6: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM), it was used to display a brief animation simulating a contact list. ^[1]