Alternative video player

[gauze]

I've playing around with a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone and wasn't satisfied with the Windows Media Player.

When it is opening a video, the video is all choppy but the program becomes totally unresponsive

Seeking is just a guessing game. I hold down the rewind/forward button and don't really have a clear idea where the video is going to stop at all.

Just wondering are there any good alternatives video players that will load faster and be more responsive?

The only three players I've looked at was:

TCPMP which seems very good...except I'm not sure how I'm supposed to install it and customize it (I think there was some plugin to get it to play FLV files?).

Core Player Mobile seemed pretty good as well.

PocketTV didn't seem to support many formats.

In general, I use Avidemux to change videos (AVI's or FLV's) I find online to MP4's with MPEG4-SP video and AAC audio. I wouldn't mind be able to run FLV files without having to process them or being able to encode h.264 video but that's not too important to me.

What is important to me is a responsive and fast video player.

Any suggestions?

[nir36]

I use CorePlayer and it's wonderful.. don't see any reason to use anything else.

which device do you have?

[gauze]

PanTech Matrix Pro

Apparently someone involved in the project was a college buddy of my dad or something.

Though I did notice a weird issue...the frames don't seem to update at the same time...

Like whenever the screen flashes or something moves suddenly, I can notice that the bottom half of the screen tends to update before the top half of the screen.

And the division of the screen is rarely in the same place.

So basically if the video is flashing black and white, the screen looks like a wave of black and white is moving from the bottom on the screen to the top in a real jerky manner.

Really annoying when...well...anything moves.

Does it for all my videos even if the video is low fps and an easy codec.

The default windows media player doesn't do it...but the default players pretty sucks in every other way.

Any idea of how I can tweak it?

I'm using 1.3 for Windows Mobile 6.1

edit: Hmmm...setting the video driver to GDI seems to make it slightly less noticeable.

[-PiLoT-]

im with nir i sue coreplayer ansdi t plays pretty much every codec and theres no need to install extra codecs

this includes divx

its not free but worth it

[Addicted2xda]

You can use TCPMP if you want some thing free and good :)

[gauze]

Oh I tried. But Coreplayer's h264 playback is amazing to me.

[thebabilonias]

i had coreplayer but its freezing on me so what else can I use?

[andrewmp]

it froze on me too!

[skulk3r]

CorePlayer is fantastic - the only drawback that I have occured so far is that fact that it cannot play AC3 sound files commonly found in *.avi files...otherwise, it is brilliant. Worth the money in my opinion.

No need to encode or whatever, usually I just drag and drop video files onto my phone and it plays it just fine...much better than converting through iTunes :D....unfortunately no 720p/1080p just yet, but that's just asking for too much :p