PalmOS & PocketPC Get High Quality, Versalite, Free Video Player

Submitted by tuxtops on Sat, 07/09/2005 - 01:45

Gabor Kovacs has just released TCPMP 0.66 (ex-BetaPlayer), the next generation media player for both PalmOS 5 and PocketPCs. BetaPlayer has been one of the most downloaded applications in the PPC world and now PalmOS 5 users will be also able to enjoy DivX, mpeg1-4, ogg and more.

We gave TCPMP a whirl and we found that it's much faster than before when playing WMV on PocketPC (where it used to framedrop on our Axim X5, now it doesn't), however WMV playback is buggy on the Axim x50v if the 2700G driver is used (had to soft-reset the PDA). DivX plays great though, on all of our devices, including PalmOS (very usable 320x240 DivX playback on our 126 Mhz Sony Clie TH-55). Screenshots here, here and here.