Whats happenned to tcpmp

[Guest sno]

i was thinking of getting a spanky new PPC maybe a new wvga screened machine & thought i'd check out the tcpmp site to see if they had anew version for vga or wvga & to my surprise there was no site, there was a broken link . WHATS HAPPENNED TO TCPMP . thanks for your time & i hope the tcpmp peeps are ok & doing there thing, if not they will be sorely missed.

[Guest xeno1]

TCPMP is now Core Pocket Media Player. There wont be any updates to TCPMP and you have to pay for Core. You can buy it here in the fairdeal if you decide you want to pay for it. Personally I just use Super c to convert video files to a format that TCPMP can play. There are also codecs that you can add from this website which includes flac, ac3, ffmeg etc. - http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/

[Guest pd.ryder]

Is this running on the Hermes now? I heard there were ongoing problems with compatability.

;)

[Guest psionandy]

TCPMP is now Core Pocket Media Player. There wont be any updates to TCPMP and you have to pay for Core. You can buy it here in the fairdeal if you decide you want to pay for it. Personally I just use Super c to convert video files to a format that TCPMP can play. There are also codecs that you can add from this website which includes flac, ac3, ffmeg etc. - http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/

Of course they did spin off the TCPMP codebase into the open source Betaplayer.. and aparently a new release is due soon,

[Guest xeno1]

Of course they did spin off the TCPMP codebase into the open source Betaplayer.. and aparently a new release is due soon,

I know there is supposedly a 0.81RC1 out there somewhere but I've been searching for it for about a month now and can't seem to find anywhere to download it from. I've read post at several different places from people saying that they have it, but if you can find it you're doing better than I am. I've tried to get on corecodecs website to find out what's going on with it but I haven't been able to get on it in a month either. I also just tried going to betaplayers website but basically it just has their logo on a web page and not much of anything else.

I take that back, I haven't been able to get on corecodecs tcpmp site in a month but I'm guessing they've just taken it down.

[Guest Shuflie]

I thought that the terms of the GPL license stopped this sort of thing from happening, in any case if anyone has the original TCPMP binaries and source they can be freely distributed under the original GPL license.

[Guest psionandy]

I thought that the terms of the GPL license stopped this sort of thing from happening, in any case if anyone has the original TCPMP binaries and source they can be freely distributed under the original GPL license.

hmmm... it does seem to be missing in action.

The best lead I found was this one http://solsie.com/betaplayercom-is-coming/ giving the history of what's happened and a link to the banner page at

http://www.betaplayer.com/

[Guest Sogarth]

I thought that the terms of the GPL license stopped this sort of thing from happening, in any case if anyone has the original TCPMP binaries and source they can be freely distributed under the original GPL license.

The terms of the GPL just mean that if anybody other than the code owner makes modifications to it, they must also release the source to it. The code owner is allowed to change the license the software is released under, or license the code to somebody else with a different license (such as the SleepyCat Berkeley DB folks before they were bought by Oracle). They're under no obligation to keep the license up, or keep distributing the files. Such is the GPL.

Although, yeah, it's a pita that they're just letting TCPMP lay fallow.

Edited April 5, 2007 by Sogarth