Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Video player for Palm & Pocket PC

At the TTG animation workshop (by the way, great summary Kathy but you've got your Greg's and Graeme's mixed up!) we were talking about playing video files on Palm OS and Pocket PC devices. The application I've used for a while now on my Palm is an open source job called TCPMP (The Core Pocket Media Player). As you can see from the wiki info, it plays a wide range of video and audio formats and it's free. It's also available for the Pocket PC.

It's actually been superceded by a an app called CorePlayer and is now a commercial product (US $24.95), but the older free version is still readily available. Interestingly, the CorePlayer is about to be released on the Symbian platform (used by Nokia mobiles, and others) which will hopefully make them compatible a broader range of video file formats.

Here's the Wikipedia info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core_Pocket_Media_Player

The Pocket PC download:
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia-Graphics/Video-Players/The-Core-Pocket-Media-Player-8609.shtml

The Palm download:
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia-Graphics/Video-Players/tcpmp-Palm-OS-7895.shtml

CorePlayer info:
http://www.coreplayer.com/

Also, here's the link to the open source screencast (recording) application I was talking about on the day. It has nowhere near the feature set of Camtasia but it works pretty well and you can't complain about the price...
http://www.camstudio.org/

Cheers
Graeme

1 comment:

Peta Pash said...

Hi Graeme

Thanks very much for all this info. Have you tried anything out with your students?

Cheers

Peta