The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) is a software media player. Supported operating systems include Windows, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Smartphone, Palm OS and Symbian OS. In 2007, CoreCodec plans on renaming TCPMP to BetaPlayer and will expand on the supported platforms by releasing COM, .NET, Linux (GTK+), Linux (QT), Linux (QTopia), and Apple Computer's Mac OS X versions.^{[citation needed]} In software engineering, software maintenance is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... This article is about media players in general. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Windows CE (sometimes abbreviated WinCE) is a variation of Microsofts Windows operating system for minimalistic computers and embedded systems. ... Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API. Devices which run Windows Mobile include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, and Portable Media Centers. ... Palm OS is a compact operating system developed and licensed by PalmSource, Inc. ... Symbian OS is an operating system, designed for mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd. ... Apple Inc. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...

TCPMP supports many audio, video, and image formats, including AC3, HE-AAC, AMR, DivX, FLAC, H.263, H.264, JPEG, Monkey's Audio, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MP2, MP3, Musepack, MS-MPEG4-v3, PNG, Speex, TIFF, TTA, Vorbis, WAV, WavPack and XviD. It supports many container formats, including 3GP, ASF, AVI, Matroska, MPEG, OGG, OGM and QuickTime. Some formats, such as H.264, require a plugin, which may hamper performance. Description Dolby Digital is the trademark for Dolby Laboratories AC-3 audio coding system. ... High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) is a lossy data compression scheme for digital audio. ... Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) is a Audio data compression scheme optimized for speech coding. ... DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. ... FLAC, an acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is a popular file format for audio data compression. ... H.263 is a video codec designed by the ITU-T as a low-bitrate encoding solution for videoconferencing. ... H.264 is a standard for video compression. ... In computing, JPEG (pronounced JAY-peg; IPA: ) is a commonly used standard method of compression for photographic images. ... Monkey’s Audio is a lossless audio compression codec. ... Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) is an informal name for multimedia formats where each video frame or interlaced field of a digital video sequence is separately compressed as a JPEG image. ... MPEG-1 defines a group of Audio and Video (AV) coding and compression standards agreed upon by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group). ... MP2 (sometimes incorrectly named Musicam) is a short form of MPEG-1 Audio Layer II, and it is also used as a file extension for files containing audio data of this type. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular audio encoding format. ... Musepack or MPC is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160-180 kbit/s. ... PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. ... Speex is a free software speech codec that claims to be unencumbered by patent restrictions. ... This article is about TIFF, the computer image format. ... TTA may refer to Telecommunications Technology Association in Korea Tennessee Telecommunications Association, a telecommunications industry trade organization Tennessee Trails Association Terran Trade Authority, a science-fiction universe Texas Telephone Association, a trade association for telephone companies in Texas The Tough Alliance, a synthpop duo from Sweden Time triggered architecture, software... Vorbis is an open source, lossy audio codec project headed by the Xiph. ... WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ... WavPack is a free, open source lossless audio compression format developed by David Bryant. ... Xvid (formerly XviD) is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 standard. ... 3GP is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for use on 3G mobile phones. ... Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format) is Microsofts proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ... AVI, an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992, as part of the Video for Windows technology. ... Matroska (common file extensions being . ... The Moving Picture Experts Group or MPEG is a working group of ISO/IEC charged with the development of video and audio encoding standards. ... Ogg is an open standard for a free container format for digital multimedia, unrestricted by software patents and designed for efficient streaming and manipulation. ... OGM meaning Ogg Media File, was developed by Tobias Waldvogel. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ...

TCPMP began as an open source player for Windows CE and Windows Mobile called Betaplayer. In 2005 the development team ported it to the Palm OS, Windows and Symbian operating systems. Windows CE (sometimes abbreviated WinCE) is a variation of Microsofts Windows operating system for minimalistic computers and embedded systems. ... Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API. Devices which run Windows Mobile include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, and Portable Media Centers. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Palm OS is a compact operating system developed and licensed by PalmSource, Inc. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Symbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...

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The open source GPL version is freely available at the CoreCodec development website or alternate site, while the licensable OEM version of CorePlayer will be available on CorePlayer.com. Licensable components like the directshow H.264 video codec CoreAVC are now available. The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... CoreAVC is a video decoder developed by CoreCodec, implementing the MPEG-4 AVC standard (also known as H.264) used, for example, in next-generation video disc formats HD DVD and Blu-Ray. ...

TCPMP also has hardware accelerated playback for ATI and Intel 2700g mobiles, such as the Tapwave Zodiac and Dell Axim X50v. In computing, hardware acceleration is the use of hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the normal (general purpose) CPU. Examples of hardware acceleration include blitting acceleration functionality in graphics processing units (GPUs) and instructions for complex operations in CPUs. ... The current version of the article or section is written like a magazine article instead of the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia. ... Intel 2700G (Marathon) is a low power (50mW max) graphics co-processor for the XScale PXA27x processor and is built on PowerVR MBX technology. ... The Tapwave Zodiac 2 The Tapwave Zodiac is a Palm OS 5-based PDA created by the US company Tapwave, and the first Palm-based device developed with gaming and multimedia as primary considerations. ...

TCPMP could be seen running on Morris O'Brian's Pocket PC on the popular television drama 24. During the episode that aired on February 26, 2007 (Day 6: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM), it was used to display a brief animation simulating a contact list.^{[citation needed]} Morris OBrian is a fictional character from the TV series 24. ... 24 is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television series created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, and produced by Imagine Television. ... is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

External links

• TCPMP Web Site (Now Defunct)
• Backup TCPMP Download
• Corecodec Network
• CoreAVC H.264 Video Codec
• CorePlayer Web Site
• CorePlayerX Web Browser Plug-in Web Site
• Viewing iPod (H.264) videos on a Pocket PC with TCPMP
• Last free version of TCPMP and Codecs for playing iPod formatted video (ffmpeg plugin)