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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] soccergoal:
why after I installed it, still display the old skin?? not for finger control??
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Sian:
Did you uninstall previous version (whatever it may be) first? How about trying to load the skin manually?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] soccergoal:
It is OK after I manually load the new skin, thx
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] mike2nl:
I think with all what i have read here, i can forget the core player...:)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] koity:
Awesome!

Nice update to the tcpmp player. I never thought I will live to see it get skinned. Thanks a lot! :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
Yup...why waste money on Coreplayer when they don't even take the effort to create even a single finger friendly skin?

To be fair, they did code TCPMP, but their lack of updates for Coreplayer makes me think they don't deserve our money at all.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ephestione:
coreplayer is still faster in playback ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] chris5932:
Hi,

On first run it said some codec error like "fflv4 codec blabla"

I can't play *.flv now

Any fix?

//downloaded the plugin, didn't see link on first page

guess it works now Ill test later

Cheers
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] luckylz:
great thanks!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] egolivar:
Please, QVGA support... :o
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Botzy:
Thank you verry much for this release, subs working good "srt file"

Nice Gui, better then my previous one.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] sar3vok:
why if i play an flv and mute the sound it goes marvelous but if i play a flv video with audio the video start to lag?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Beards:
Guys,

Quick query.....

I already have CorePlayer (purchased some time ago and now retails for $29.95) which works perfectly on my HD2.

Question:- What would be the motivation in downloading TCPMP and this skin in use over CorePlayer?

In other words ~ is there any real need in changing my video player from CorePlayer to TCPMP and this skin?

Thanks in advance. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] lazym:
thanks very much, works fine on mine.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] chris5932:
Hi,

Pro TCMP:

Free

Ac3 support (maybe other codecs also, I only know ac3)

subtitles support (thanks to spyrale)

Pro Coreplayer:

More preferences

Faster

Thats just what I know..

So both have their advantages.

Cheers
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Beards:
Thank you Chris.

So, so far the only advantage is support for AC3. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] luckyuser:
Nobody an solution:eek:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] spyrale:
don't forget subtitles support :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jorge25years:
VGA support

Hello,

Please I would like VGA support, for IPAQ 214. The TCPMP works fine on my Ipaq, but the problem is the screen, it doesn´t fit well.

Anybody knows about VGA support, please?.

Thank you very much in advance.

Jorge
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ephestione:
shortly, yes.

But considering the whole series collection of Frasier I'm watching is in AC3, I wouldn't be able to watch it if I only had coreplayer :p

So it's not a minor advantage afterall :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] wapvirus:
Would you please consider a VGA port i would be more than happy to shrink the graphics but i have no idea when it comes to XML skinnig ,I would be more than willing to help :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jdbpogo:
just wanted to yell out a quick thanks. the ac3 support alows me to throw away my copy of coreplayer and the skin looks fantastic. this is the absolute best video player for hd2 atm. great job!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] troed:
Great Job ! 1000 Txs ! Works great on my HD2, ROM 1.48, Manila 2.5.1921

Great movie experience on airports waiting halls
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] miovee:
nice work..... thanx
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] farufas:
what format video's are you playing on this. I DL'd it and tried a mp4 file and it was skipping not working properly? Please let me know.

Thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ajocius:
I use TCPMP to catch video stream from VLC (running on windows PC). Have saved *.asx file in phone memory. That file contains IP and port of PC running VLC. Opening *.asx file in TCPMP opens video stream. The only issue I have is that video is not in Portrait mode.... I have to change orientation every time I start watching the stream. Sometimes I have to turn once, sometime twice... Is there a way to fix orientation (registry? Settings?) . I use it on HTC HD2. I would like video to be in Portrait mode when I open it. If I go fullscreen, I would like it to turn my phone 90 degrees against the clock and again see video oriented correctly. Is this possible to have it as a default somehow???

I would also like Zoom-> Stretch to Screen option to be preselected as well. Is it possible?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Beards:
I have the same issue.... Would be interested to also hear what settings are best for MP4 files.

CorePlayer plays MP4 as smooth as silk.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
MP4s should be played with the default Album player as much as possible as only that player supports hardware acceleration. For mp4s that don't play even with that player, I would suggest conversion.

I usually only play flvs and avis with coreplayer and tcpmp...for best performance.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Sian:
I play WMV (if I remember correctly) normal mpg and avi format on TCPMP. For MP4, I play it on the default album player, which is really smooth.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] michi.housefan:
Hi this skin looks very great and modern.

I have only one problem:

My device only supports QVGA.

Isn´t there any possibility to make a QVGA Port?

Please please please! I knew that there is a simple Iphone Port but i wanted to skin my mobile phone to a HTC Theme.

:confused::o:(

It would be really fanastic!

Please :cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Beards:
Stange..... I clicked on the Camera tab and selected Albums from the bottom left but it did not show the directory or names where my MP4 files are stored.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] HTC Touch-Pro:
Hi - looks awesome and I'm excited to try it today.

1) I have the latest MightyROM flashed and running on my Verizon TP2, will this be compatible?

2) All of my movies are ripped to .ISO format on my HDD at home, can I simply drag-drop these files to the internal SD card on the phone through Active-SYNC and play in native format, or do I have to convert to something other than .ISO image somehow?

THANKS!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] sachok08:
Hi All!

My HTC Style Icon for TCPMP Player
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
If it's MP4, then it should be automatically opened by Album video player when u click on it in File Explorer. If it doesn't open automatically, then some other app must have changed the file association. Don't go through via the Album app to view the videos.....that app has strange specifications on which mp4 files appears there (which works to our benefit in some cases)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Beards:
Yes, this is exactly the reason I'm trying to open the video through the Album app because MP4 files have been reassigned to CorePlayer which obviously does not support them.

Where exactly is the Album Player located?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] roteplex:
This version is far more laggy than Coreplayer, I like the AC3 support and Subtitle support, but why is this so much worse than Coreplayer when they are same type player??
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] thegios:
Video quality is so much worst than divx mobile palyer: very pixelated...

Also, has anyone tried the pre-amp? It does not work for me...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Beards:
Funny you should say that... I've recently been trying TCPMP and have exactly the same problems.

Obviously there must be a setting or two that needs altering but at the moment it's not living up to my expectations in what others have said.

I know about the AC3 but I'm finding what's the point if it's laggy and like CorePlayer it doesn't support MP4.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
Look for the HTCVideoPlayer.exe in windows.

Strange, I have Coreplayer installed as well, but it doesn't take over MP4s by default....methinks u changed it somehow?

Just use resco file explorer or equivalent to change back the file association.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
That's not an entirely valid complaint.

TCPMP was created by the people behind Coreplayer a long long time ago, as a freeware. For it's time, it was the best video player available, free too.

Then they decided to go commercial, thus Coreplayer was born. However, due to issues with payment for AC3 codec, it was dropped. Obviously some decoding improvements were made, otherwise who would wanna use Coreplayer if TCPMP worked as well as a freeware?

Anyway, to keep it short, Winmo has the best video playback system of any mobile OS out there with the addition of Coreplayer/TCPMP, not to belittle the complaints here, but you guys should take a look at the other phones/OSes out there. Less a few phones from Samsung, most don't even go near xvid/divx videos with a stick. :D None supports mkv,mpg,mov,rm.....so be grateful sometimes. :)

MP4s are mostly best playable via the default built in player, but of course, do note it doesn't play every variant of MP4s out there, in that case conversion will be necessary.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
use this one only if the movie you need playing has AC3 audio or it's a foreign movie that requires subtitles. Otherwise, Coreplayer would serve most better as a video player for anything that's not MP4.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Beards:
I wasn't complaining I was making an observation.

I'm aware the history of TCPMP and how CorePlayer was borne from it.

It's just that having tried again TCPMP I just don't find it fits into my requirements.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
Relax, dun take it too serious. :D

But you do know how Coreplayer came about, so I fail to see the reason why you were echoing roteplex's statement. It's only right that Coreplayer performs better....we should be glad TCPMP exists in the first place.

Well, if it doesn't fit you, then there's always Coreplayer. No reason to belittle the wonderful job done here on the skin, it looks much better than Coreplayer's anyway. :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] monx®:
of course coreplayer will perform better bcoz it is commercial apps while tcpmp is freeware :cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] patomas:
Try setting dither and always Smooth zoom in video setting page, and remove use device stretching bla bla from Directdraw page.

Dither really makes a difference.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] patomas:
Regarding performance: make a boot, wait 20 sec and start TCPMP. It will go really faster. After your device has gone to power save once, it will slow down.

Edit: or use a ROM based on 2.09 drivers like artemis 4.0 it will go always faster.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Beards:
Never entered my mind to belittle the wonderful skin job done here... I'm full of praise for the work done.

All I was saying is I found it laggy ~ that's just my opinion and wondered if there were any settings (registry perhaps) that could improve upon it.

Nothing there to say that TCPMP or the skin should be avoided... simply at present it does not fit my needs.

Anyway, we've rambled on long enough on this... I value your information so there's nothing taken against it.. honestly.

In my profession you sometimes get to the heart of a problem by digging swift and hard... Apologies if it sounded like negative comments.

Not intended. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
No problem....I'm inclined to think that whatever tinkering has been possible with TCPMP, has already been done to death. What you see is what you get. :)

So....fixed the MP4 playback issue already?

Also, a bit OT, but does anyone know if there is any app that allows me to create a playlist of videos that play using the HTC video player? It's irritating to have to exit to the file explorer everytime a clip ends. :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Beards:
No Ken,

Unfortunately the built-in HTCVideoPlayer simply refused to even load when I re-associated MP4 files to it. :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Wildcopper:
First, thanks a LOT to the author of this skin for TCPMP, looks great.

Now about the software itself...

I spent quite a bit of time trying to get the best performance for that player on my HD2, and I think I've found settings that work smoothly for most videos I've thrown at it, including those with AC3 audio and exotic resolutions.

Step 1:

Before you do ANYTHING, open the options menu, scroll down and open the settings.

Select the "DirectDraw" page. The "best" settings are:

* Overlay format: RGB. Yes, RGB. And not YUY2 like I've read in many places. This will permit you to enable dithering, and gets you top notch performance.

* Disable Overlay with Colorkey. Very important too, or you'll just get a black image, if it doesn't simply crash your PDA.

* Disable "Use Blitting instead of overlay" if it's enabled.

* The last setting doesn't matter as it only affects Blitting.

Optional, I recommend now going to the "Colors" menu page and move "Brightness" one notch to the right, and "Contrast" one notch to the left from the default settings. That will optimize the brightness of movies for the HD2 screen. The default settings are a bit too dark in my opinion, now that's up to you and your personal taste too of course :)

Step 2:

Now you can exit the settings (press OK) and enable several things in the "normal" Options.

* In Options/Video, enable Smooth Zoom, Dither and Directdraw, and set Quality to Normal.

Give it a try. I got ultra smooth playback of everything I threw at the player with those settings. The key seems to be the "RGB" overlay which permits to enable dithering and also get higher quality video display as bonus.

Hope it helps!

PS: It's VERY important to do the steps in the "Options/Settings/DirectDraw" page to set the overlay mode BEFORE anything else. If you enable DirectDraw display in the Video settings before that, you make crash your device and have to reset it.

PS2: Another secret for smooth video playback is to check your task manager before you watch a video, and close every unneeded running program. That advice is in my opinion also valuable for daily usage of the HD2, regularly nuking unused applications can help optimize the speed of your mobile phone.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
Oh well.....

Nothing a hard reset won't solve. And this time, don't let coreplayer take over the mp4 extension...it doesn't do that by default. :D

And if you still need to consider, do note that it plays videos in the best way possible on the device, only pity is the limited codec support. :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] JamesRC:
Amazing post. Doubled my rendering speed with dithering, thank you!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Wildcopper:
Glad to know it doesn't only work for me :)

Would be nice if other people try it - and if it works for many, maybe put it somewhere visible on the forum?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] JamesRC:
It more than works- it doubled my rendering speed!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
wow...I thought TCPMP/Coreplayer were hardcoded not to play anything above 1008 resolution either way? That means you can't be playing 720p media as the 1280x720 resolution goes above the 1008 limit.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] JamesRC:
Yeah, I just checked the validity of my own claim as it seemed a bit whack.

The video was not actually 720p, just checked in VLC, seems it was reporting wrong (and mislabelled) in my convertor. Sorry for the confusion - post edited.

Nevertheless, dithering doubled my rendering speed on the same file, so thanks for your help.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Wildcopper:
I just noticed I forgot a very important setting in my "Tutorial" post...

Buffering!

The HD2 has a lot of RAM compared to other phones.

Sometimes, in "action heavy" scenes, the videos still may stutter - mostly due to poor optimization of TCPMP for the Snapdragon - while most of the time, the decoding is way faster than needed. Sadly, those stutters can ruin movie immersion pretty badly.

The solution - simple - let's use that HD2's RAM!

In "Options / Settings / Buffering", put Normal Buffer Size to "32868", aka 32 Mb. You may want to try other values, but I found that a good balance between too low sizes and high memory consumption. This way you will have plenty of space to "prebuffer/predecode" videos so that when a "heavy" scene comes, it will already have several seconds of video prebuffered and it will not slow down overall playback. The idea is to have a buffer big enough so that even when decoding temporary drops under 100% speed, there will be enough video pre-decoded so that the viewer doesn't notice it.

Hope it helps (and makes sense), enjoy!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] tnyynt:
@wildcopper

With reference to your settings, please note that dither off and YUY2 overlay format gives me 220% performance boost over your settings.

I've benched several videos with your settings (that is dither on and RGB) and each time I scored around 95-110%, then with dither off and YUY2 I scored 220-230%.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] patomas:
Dithering is a "quality" setting. It makes gradient smoother removing pixelation. In my case, as it should in my opinion do, using dithering improves quality but slow playback down.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] tnyynt:
I know what dithering is but I prefer undithered smooth playback rather than smooth image scoring under 100%.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] drtom2007:
VGA version

Here is the VGA version (hope the developer doesn't mind:))
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] nik35:
Hey all,no matter what settings i apply, there always seem to be lag.Could anybody help me out?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] drtom2007:
VGA version 2

And this is version 2 of VGA TCPMP skin.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] salvy.c.83:
good!

I'm wating for qvga!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] GaZ:
Thank you thank you thank you! I've been wanting an updated TCPMP for years!

The player itself looks great, but is anything going to be done to the "open file" and "playlist" views? I hoped they would look similar to the the default windows mobile file explorer now. If this could be done then great, but would need to keep the other row of tools in this view (ie: the options to select several, select all, etc).

Also would it be possible to give it a higher res icon? I want to have it as a quick link on the Sense home tab but not with the ugly pixelated icon.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kenkiller:
Huh? This version has a pretty nice high res icon.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] leaper_sg:
Thanks alot for posting this, using this player + TVUPlayer on HD2, fantastic quality.

Again, thanks alot. :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] salvy.c.83:
QVGA skin

Here is the QVGA skin (hope the developer doesn't mind)

A big thanks to netdrg and also to drtom2007

:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] salvy.c.83:
can you make a landscape skin?

Thx
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] sider al:
Thank you. It's very easy to install on my hd2, and it works well. But the screen is very small, i tried the "full screen" but that didn't change anything. I'm a bit disappointed.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] DennisLil:
Video is covered by green distortion

Hi,

I've installed the TCPMP version and the Iphone skin. But when trying to watch a video the video is covered by green distortion. I can see it playing behind the green, and the sound is ok.

Can anyone help?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] holdat:
thanks for this
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] patomas:
Go to Settings-Directdraw and check if you have "Overlay with colorkey" flagged.

If yes, unflag it and flag "Use blitting instead of overlay"
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] cwm2506:
Thank you very much. It's really nice. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] DennisLil:
Simple as that. Thanks alot!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Bib_x:
Hi, i´m streaming from my dreambox (over server with vlc installed).

If i want to see a MP4V-encoded stream, i get a error message: unknown fileformat

But it is running with video-codec h264.

Is there a codec missing? Why can´t i play MP4V?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] mrfella00:
I downloaded the tcpmp on my sprint htc touch pro with the official regular ROM and it doesn't do anything... should I install the flash to go along with this...? if I do where can I get the flash file
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Lecl0ne:
Hello,

I don't know if you noticed it guys, but the skin has a problem with the 2 upper left buttons, the action is not at the good place, we have to click 20 or 25 pixels down to action it.. can you fix it?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] usovas:
:D:D:D Thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] BS3001:
Thank you very much!!:rolleyes::D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] nick2k:
TMOUS HD2 user here: and it works better than the last three different versions of TCPMP available that i tried.

thanks! :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] d1r7y54nch32:
Another HD2 user

Working great for me too. Thx, now my meat-sausage fingers don't feel quite so fumbly ne more.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] W1zzard:
Hello, work nice with FLAC.

Is it possible somehow add to playlist folder and all subfolder in one click? Add files from each folder is quite slow ((
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Lecl0ne:
Does anyone niticed the button problem on the left corner? position is not ok with new skin
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] violette58:
i can't install it. it reads "installation of tcpmp_netdrg_v2.cab was unsuccessful"

anybody have any ideas? this is the message i receive after i tap on the cab file.

it doesn't even ask where i want to install it. as soon as i tap it, i get the message.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] violette58:
nevermind, i got it to work. it was a corrupt cab file.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] fhaines:
Awesome

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.!! Works and looks incredible on the US Tmobile HD2. First good advancement of TCPMP Ive seen in years.

fhaines
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] drtom2007:
landscape

Here is my landscape mod for WVGA.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] aceo07:
drtom2007, was there any tools that you used to make it easier to modify the skin? I'm thinking of changing the skin a bit.

update: I made slight modifications to get more space for the view port. Shifted the file title info to the top.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] sakis9:
Unique you make me happy !! !

Well done !
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] sakis9:
mhm

My subtitles are shown like some kind of hieroglyphics how i can repair it ?

My language is bulgarian.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] sakis9:
See the problem.

Here is the error one.

This is how the subtitles must be show.

http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=68&u=13506740