UPDATE: A little late, But CorePlayer is now officially available for purchase here, Mobihand.
With only 6 days to go before the official release of CorePlayer, I?m sure many of you are eager to know what features it?ll offer and how it?ll look and feel on your Pocket PC device. Well, here is a taste of what to expect from the highly anticipated CorePlayer, which to be released on the 16th of this month.
Screenshots: Download screenshots of CorePlayer (tech demo) that I captured running on WM2003 SE.
Release notes from CorePlayer:
The CorePlayer Multimedia Framework is a culmination of over 2 years of development effort under BetaPlayer and TCPMP. From the initial onset the major goals were to NOT deliver a bloated over featured crippled media player? but rather to deliver on a promise of simplicity, efficiency and unlimited end user power. Power is potential and the potential of what we ?will? give the end user will not be equaled by any other media player, on any platform.Wonder why this has not been done before? This is NO small task. . . and many in the community have stated ?release it now? ?where is it?, etc.. Well as simple as that may seem its not all that simple at all. Aside from legal/IP licensing ? there are costs associated with doing something as monumental as this? and while not to bore you? releasing it over the past 6 months was not an option. What is however is creating something unique in in the multimedia space? a dual licensed Open Source / Closed Source Multimedia Framework.
With 1.xx now being released to the general public and OEM licensees? the “1.0″ core is much more then the sum of it components?. as we feel that it is this 1.xx foundation that is crucial to what we are building off of for the future and what a next-gen multimedia framework is.
So, what is ?Next-Gen?? Well it is not an easy answer? but let me try. We like to thing “build it, use it, change it”?. and then start all over again. While it is ?great? to experiment and change the norm, the end result must lead us to think about what the end user would want to do but not necessarily what he should do as other media players do. Ultimately we feel what matters is to simply empower the user to let them do what they want.A similar mantra we use is “Listen, Think, Change”, those three actions that when stated together give meaning to Chaos. It plays a factor of what we do here at CoreCodec on a daily basis? and we hope that when the 1.xx CorePlayer / BetaPlayer line is done that you will be happy with the results.
Source: Aximsite
Here is our CorePlayer1.xx timeline (note I am leaving alot out on purpose so be warned).
- CorePlayer 1.0
We will be initially releasing it on CE, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, Palm and Symbian
- Universal Skins? allows users to create an entire UI for all aour supported platforms within a single skin file. Whats cool about U.S. is that you can skin ANYTHING within our player? that means media library, options menu, playlist, player, eq, etc? if you can imagine it? you can do it.
- Best in Class Codecs: CoreAVC (H.264), CoreAAC v2.0, CoreASP, CoreMP3, CoreWMA, CoreWMV, CoreDVD,,, hey? we even support midi 
- Advanced streaming suite for (UDP, HTTP, MMS, RTP, RTSP). Noting that 1.0 only has HTTP and UDP till 1.2.
Future desktop codecs coming are CoreVC1 and CoreAC3 and Microsoft Janus.
CorePlayer 1.1 will feature
- Initial bug fix release
CorePlayer 1.2 will feature
- Our CoreTheque database and Media Library
- Windows XP / Vista
- CoreCaster ?Ready?
CorePlayer 1.4 - 1.5 willl feature
- Seek and Share Social Network Sharing
- CoreSync / CoreTunes integration
- Linux Ports and OS X ports?
Our price will be a reduced $19.95 marked down from $24.95
Thanks to betaboy and CorePlayer for providing with the Tech Demo and information on their upcoming product.
