CorePlayer 1.2.1 (w/ YouTube support!) & Pocket Player 3.6 out; massive price cuts at Conduits
1. The latest, 1.2.1 version of CorePlayer has JUST been released, with the long-promised Mobile YouTube support. It also has Configurable YouTube quality control; let me cite their post on this: “But the BIGGEST reason why YouTube is better in CorePlayer then on YouTube.com or any other third party application? CorePlayer is the first media player to feature Configurable YouTube quality control.... You control the bandwidth and quality that your platform can handle. From Low, Medium, to High quality (H.264) streams. Once you start to play with the YT interface in CP and play with the quality settings you will see what we mean by 'Great'!!!”
Also see THIS and THIS for user reports
Note that, should you have a Symbian device, you will be interested in their 1.2.0 preview (the official version is 2-3 weeks away). There’s still no sign of the Palm OS version - other than their announcement of working on it. Finally, as far as the iPhone version is concerned, it’ll be released in about three months.
2. Conduits Pocket Player, another, excellent, albeit a bit sluggish and less CPU-friendly all-in-one player, has just been updated to 3.6 with a better thought-out interface and other goodies.
See for example THIS for more user feedback.
3. The same Conduits has just cut the price of their two flagship applications:
- Pocket Slides, the only app to be able to not only display, but also edit PowerPoint presentations and
- Pocket Artist, feature-wise, without doubt the best image viewer for Windows Mobile (not taking into account the order of magnitude more expensive solutions) – albeit it isn’t the fastest. See THIS for the Image Viewer Bible; note that the review of the new Resco Image Viewer is HERE and both Spb Imageer and XnView have also been updated in the meantime, fixing the bugs mentioned in the article and adding new features. Also, there’s a brand new, 4.0 version of PQV, THE fastest (but not particularly featureful) image viewer out there. Finally, Glass Lantern's PocketLoupe has been entirely discontinued in the meantime, unfortunately.
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The real problem with this integrated YouTube interface is that it cannot deal in any way with videos that are published in web sites. If you are reading some site and you expect to see a video, then you don't see it in the browser (Opera still doesn't show it, and IE is discardable). So you go to CorePlayer and then... how do you look for the video that they publish? If you don't see neither the title, nor the video ID... you're lost.
Have you found out a solution?
SuperJMN, I never tried the CorePlayer for YouTube, but my "built-in" HTC Steaming Media for Pocket PC opens, when I click on a YouTube video. In the background, the browser still shows the original website... when i like to open a new video, changing back to the browser and click on the desired new video. Thats all...