Technology Reviews

I recently had trouble playing a mpeg file on my Symbian 60 3rd edition phone. The built in real player doesn’t support mpeg format and the videos i wanted to play were in mpeg format. Though a simple solution is to convert the files using any convertor to formats supported by real player , but i didn’t wish to convert every damn video to different format.

I came across numerous players for mobile which could play multiple formats , but I still couldn’t find one player that could play mpeg , divx, flv etc formats in a single player. Then I came across this player - Core Player. This players was the one which supported all the formats I actually wanted a player to play.

Core Player is a light audio \video player for mobile ( Also a version for computers) which plays easily plays a number of formats. Companies like Joost are using this player on a huge scale. Chicago Suntimes says : “ it actually has a user interface designed with bipeds in mind”. A few features of the player  :

Features:

• YouTube support
• Matroska MKV Ready!
• BlueTooth Stereo (A2DP) and Remote Control (AVRCP) support
• Programmable Hotkeys
• Supports over 24 Languages
• Media library (Manage your RSS Feeds, playlists, podcasts, bookmarks)
• Podcast Support (Standard and Enhanced)
• Streaming support (HTTP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, RTCP, SDP, Unicast, Multicast)
• IPTV Ready
• Audio: MP3, WMA, AAC, MKA, WAV, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, FLAC, MPC, AMR, GSM, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, MIDI
• Video: CoreAVC (H.264), AVCHD, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, MJPEG, MSVIDEO1
• Images: JPG (420, 422, 440), BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF
• Containers: FLV, Matroska, ASX, ASF, TS, PS, M2TS, 3GPP, MOV, AVI, MPEG-4, NSV
• CoreUI / Universal Skins (Custom interface)

Few snapshots :

Overall I found it to be a great player which apart from playing multiple formats has numerous options like altering speed , orientation, shuffle list, equalizer, colour variation, video sequencing, rotation etc. and more. Definitely worth a try.