Betaplayer - Opensource Video Player For Pocketpc

[jegHegy]

http://corecodec.org/projects/betaplayer/

plays xvid/divx, has support for mp3 and ogg audio, and third party plugins. primary platform is WinCE/ARM, uses C and assembly. i mailed the author and he said he doesn't have time to port right now, but he welcomes any developers that want to do so and will try to make BetaPlayer less platform-dependent.

any takers?

 

[oxygene]

as usual with divx/xvid/mpeg4: take care that you don't publish binaries if you're in a country where the mpeg stuff is patented (at least USA, though software patents are on the rise in europe, too)

 

[Rico]

w00t, I'm finally free of the WMV Media Player shackles. Thanks, BetaPlayer!

 

[jegHegy]

*coughbumpcough* (i swear i won't do it again!)

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

as usual with divx/xvid/mpeg4: take care that you don't publish binaries if you're in a country where the mpeg stuff is patented (at least USA, though software patents are on the rise in europe, too)

That only counts for encoders I beleive, decoders are fine.

 

[oxygene]

That only counts for encoders I beleive, decoders are fine.

that was true for mp3 for a while (until 2001) as long as the player was distributed "non-commercial" (are banners on the download page already 'commercial'?), but that was dropped, too..

in general, the licensing terms can change anytime, so mpeg is just a too great risk to use.

- Manufacturers pay royalties for the right to make and sell decoders and encoders.
- Personal codec use and end-user to end-user communications are covered as part of the manufacturer's license.

the manufacturer is.. uhmm.. I guess, the porter? and he has to pay for a license which grants him the right to make (and to sell - again, what about ad-revenue on the download page?) the encoder/decoder.