Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Pocket MVP 0.8Q Released
Posted by Jason Dunn in "SOFTWARE" @ 02:03 PM
Looking for a good general-purpose freeware media player? Check out Pocket MVP!
"The Pocket DivX Player is a FREE Open Source multifunction video and audio player for the PocketPC platform that can play DivX, OpenDivX, MPEG-4, MPEG-1 videos and MP3 audio."
The latest versions has some noteworthy enhancements:
"...I've created an entirely new mpeg-1 decoder for PocketMVP. It is FAR FAR FAR(get the point) superior to that of the old one based on ffmpeg...In fact in performance testing the decoder itself FAR outperforms the PocketTV decoder, new decoder only matches or slightly outperforms PTV standard edition."
There's a disturbing bit of text on the page that surprised me:
"I know this seems strange, but we recently discovered that PictPocket had actually used(without license) the PocketMVP Divx decoder source in their Player. When contacted about this they admitted it, and pulled Divx form their supported file list, however they obviously had no clue what GPL was and were extremely unwilling to provide any compensation to this project for the money they had made in using our source code."
If the above is true, shame on Digisoft!
"The Pocket DivX Player is a FREE Open Source multifunction video and audio player for the PocketPC platform that can play DivX, OpenDivX, MPEG-4, MPEG-1 videos and MP3 audio."
The latest versions has some noteworthy enhancements:
"...I've created an entirely new mpeg-1 decoder for PocketMVP. It is FAR FAR FAR(get the point) superior to that of the old one based on ffmpeg...In fact in performance testing the decoder itself FAR outperforms the PocketTV decoder, new decoder only matches or slightly outperforms PTV standard edition."
There's a disturbing bit of text on the page that surprised me:
"I know this seems strange, but we recently discovered that PictPocket had actually used(without license) the PocketMVP Divx decoder source in their Player. When contacted about this they admitted it, and pulled Divx form their supported file list, however they obviously had no clue what GPL was and were extremely unwilling to provide any compensation to this project for the money they had made in using our source code."
If the above is true, shame on Digisoft!
