Asri al-Baker has been trialling the brand new CorePlayer ports for both UIQ 3 (on his Sony Ericsson P990i) and S60 3rd Edition (on his Nokia N95). How well does this hallowed media player stand up to video and audio tests on both Symbian interfaces? Find out in his CorePlayer Mobile review.
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Excellent. Finally starting to see some "Power Apps" on the S60 platform.
Hopefully a lot more start coming through real soon. Currently this is the one big lst down for me when deciding WM v S60.
Zuber
Well written review and really impressive product,I do tend to agree with the review that on S60 phones the lack of touchscreen does at times make the app somewhat cumbersome to use,but the HotKeys to help with that problem.
Regarding playing flv,rmvb & wmv,it would be great to see those file formats being associated with the product in the feature.Correct me if I am wrong,is it possible,for a Symbian device, to have wmv support due to Microsoft strict policy and the compression method used in wmv files?
wow this is an amazing review and i am seriously looking into getting this software once released. my only question is does this software have a pc part so as to convert ur movies to cell phone size or how would go about resizing videos for ur device?
Neat, succinct review as regards Coreplayer on the N95, sums it up nicely.
Betaboy has said that file association and WMV compatibility are in the pipeline, along with a few other 'goodies'! 😊
Dude i watch 700mb movies with pretty high resolution (almost dvd Quality) on Coreplayer with my N95, with almost no chop or anything 😃.
Good player, but not perfect. RealPlayer works better for h.264 mp4 files on my Nokia E90.
Good review, but I'd like more data on the comment about playing H264 on UIQ3 devices with CorePlayer. Asri seems to have tested just one video file albeit an important one 😊 I've read conflicting reports elsewhere that some other H264-encoded videos do not play well.
Best regards,
Malcolm
www.freepoc.org
malcolm,
thanks for your comment. from my experience, coreplayer plays H.264 fine on P990. I have tested various files like TV series encoded in H.264 and there are some files with higher resolution than P990's QVGA screen (640x480) and they play fine.
What I did was, if the file is not played properly, I configure the video quality to Medium or Low and set dither to off. And turn the zoom to fit best.
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CorePlayer doesnt have a PC converter. Like I said in the review, it can play almost any file without conversion. Some files that I loaded into my MS Duo and microSD are movies ripped from my DVDs and they ranged in size from 700MB to 900MB avi files high resolution.
Coreplayer was designed to eliminate conversion headahe. Just take any file, put it in the memory card and voila! No need to resize or transcode them to mobile friendly format.
cheers!
According to the coreplayer website, the Symbian version doesn't support hardware acceleration (yet - they plan to). Guess it will really fly then.