CorePlayer 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. Think “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 or as we say, 'Take back your Media!'.

A perfect example of CorePlayer empowerment is our 'Universal Skins' and while some people may find our 'google' approach to our interface too simplistic..... Well, good news! Universal Skins gives you the power to make the entire UI look the way you want it to... from the menu items to embedding the menu items in the skins... On top of that.... Universal Skins also allows you to create one skin for multiple platforms with one skin file!

I often think about Seth Godin when I say, “Listen, Think, Change”, those three actions that when stated together give meaning to Chaos. It is that mantra that 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.

....Will you be supporting the step from free software to commercial product? ....

I would want to see

1. GPL situation explained (ie how they managed to get agreement from all GPL authors to close source it - doesnt it include ffmpeg and xvid? or have they re-implemented it from scratch?)

2. Support for hardware decoding on my Hermes (eg new ATI chip)

3. Seperate (auto) bookmarks on a per-file basis - atm it just remembers where you are on the last file, and if you play another file inbetween it will lose the bookmark

Apart from that, the current product does what I want (for free, and with the freedom of having the source available).

I suggest someone does a fork of the last free version, and carries on the free development.

I will NOT be buying.

If they want to make money, they should leave it open source, and suggest a donation for their work.

george

Here's a video that shows pretty much everything that coreplayer has to offer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqHmbJEzShU

As you can see, WMV playback isnt quite optimal. (file was encoded on pocket pc settings with 320x240 218bitrate) But xvid is the codec where it performs the best.

Looks like it's running on Crossbow in that video clip. The look and feel looks the same as Vista/Crossbow.

If there was a demo version, I'd try it, but there isn't, so I'll stick with TCPMP for now

The menu-theme (black taskbar & menu-buttons) is from wizbar advance2, dont confuse it with coreplayers skin.

Use the Coupon: MSM at www.Mobihand.com to get it at $19.95..... I hope thats better Wink