CorePlayer Platform

Mobile: Windows Mobile, Smartphone, CE, Palm, Symbian s60 2-3, Symbian UIQ 2-3
Mobile CPU: ARM, MIPS
Desktop: Windows, OS X (Linux - OEM Only)
Desktop CPU: x86, PPC (x64 - OEM Only)
Version 1.3.6 build 7427 (20090910):
- FIX: ShoutCast/ICY metadata reading on slow connection (fix async reading of the metadata)
- FIX: Format recognization problems (fix async reading of the probe)
- FIX: Symbian: fix the special character text entry
- FIX: Windows: Playlist mode display
- FIX: OS X: audio/video Sync issues when the AudioQueue output was selected
- ADD: Snow Leopard Support
- ADD: Option to keep playback running when leaving fullscreen
- ADD: One click fullscreen function
- ADD: OS X: UI speed improvement
- ADD: OS X: ALAC Apple Lossless decoding on Mac OS X 10.5/10.6 (Leopard)
- ADD: OS X: DTS decoding on Mac OS X 10.5/10.6 (Leopard) when Perian is installed
- ADD: WinCE: Windows Mobile 6.5 icon
- CHG: update to the FLAC 1.2.1 library, supports bitdepths other than 16 bits (96/24)

 

CorePlayer Platform

Mobile: Windows Mobile, Smartphone, CE, Palm, Symbian s60 2-3, Symbian UIQ 2-3
Mobile CPU: ARM, MIPS
Desktop: Windows, OS X (Linux - OEM Only)
Desktop CPU: x86, PPC (x64 - OEM Only)
Version 1.3.5 build 7340 (20090824):
- FIX: YouTube item handling and seeking
- FIX: AVC streams with SEI userdata in extradata
- FIX: DivX 3.11 in MP4 fixes
- FIX: Wavpack handling other than 16 bits
- ADD: Transparent reconnection in HTTP after a connection failure
- ADD: A connection timeout to avoid waiting forever for network streams
- ADD: FLAC support in Matroska and Ogg
- ADD: AC-3 decoding on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) when Perian is installed
- ADD: Brasilian Portugese, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Ukrainian language support
- ADD: More JPEG formats supports
- CHG: Network stream opening is less blocking

 

CorePlayer Platform
Mobile: Windows Mobile, Smartphone, CE, Palm, Symbian s60 2-3, Symbian UIQ 2-3
Mobile CPU: ARM, MIPS
Desktop: Windows, OS X (Linux - OEM Only)
Desktop CPU: x86, PPC (x64 - OEM Only)
Version 1.3.2 build 6909 (20090420):
- FIX: Misc CoreUI crashes & fixes
- FIX: Some colour conversions
- FIX: Playback of some MKV files (like the ones from Azureus Vuze)
- FIX: Better timestamp handling in MPEG formats
- FIX: Crash with some BMP files
- FIX: Better multi DPI skin handling
- FIX: Some WinCE file association
- FIX: WinCE: Make the external protocol launcher (RTSP) less blocking
- FIX: MIPS: Mono to Stereo upmixing
- ADD: Handle LATM AAC streams
- ADD: Handle cover art in WMA/ASF/WMV files
- ADD: Handle more greyscale PNG formats
- ADD: Support Login/Password for HTTP proxies (both manual and auto)
- ADD: Store the Cover Art URL in the Media Library for later use
- ADD: Added Polish and Slovak translations
- ADD: WinCE: Use the GPRS connection of the operator when available (if no wlan)
- ADD: WinCE: Use the proxy information from the GPRS connection in use
- ADD: WinCE: Optional windowed mode in native WinCE
- CHG: Adjust the MPEG ES/TS detection threshold for better accuracy
- Hundreds of other changes

 

CorePlayer Platform
Mobile: Windows Mobile, Smartphone, CE, Palm, Symbian s60 2-3, Symbian UIQ 2-3
Mobile CPU: ARM, MIPS
Desktop: Windows, OS X (Linux - OEM Only)
Desktop CPU: x86, PPC (x64 - OEM Only)
Version 1.3.0 build 6213 (20081208):
- FIX: YouTube playback
- FIX: ISO8601 'zulu' (Z) dates
- FIX: ogg Speex and Theora detection
- FIX: AVI parsing fixes
- FIX: Anamorphic aspect ratio in AVI
- FIX: Probe for UDP streams
- FIX: ID3v2.4 size parsing
- FIX: Aspect setting with prerotated portrait videos
- FIX: Misc. FLV issues
- FIX: PalmOS: Memory usage
- FIX: OS X: Keyboad shortcuts
- ADD: More YouTube stream options (from 50 kbps to 2 Mbps)
- ADD: Basic HTTP proxy support
- ADD: Basic HTTP authentication
- ADD: Improved file caching
- ADD: Support EntryRef in ASX playlists
- ADD: Low delay streaming option
- ADD: Better support for embedded cover art
- ADD: Merge the list of artist into album artists (on by default)
- ADD: Reload network files on startup option (off by default)
- ADD: Desktop: Always on top option
- CHG: CoreUI speed optimizations & fixes
- CHG: XML parsing speed
- CHG: Prefer UDP streaming for RTSP by default

 

CorePlayer Platform
Mobile: Windows Mobile, Smartphone, CE, Palm, Symbian s60 2-3, Symbian UIQ 2-3
Mobile CPU: ARM, MIPS
Desktop: Windows, OS X (Linux - OEM Only)
Desktop CPU: x86, PPC (x64 - OEM Only)
Version 1.2.5 build 4506 (20080603):

Read More: http://www.corecodec.com/forums/index.php?topic=1071.0 

- FIX: Inconsistencies in the display of the time
- FIX: Don't prerotate almost square bitmaps
- FIX: Avoid treating an empty .pls file as .m3u
- FIX: Relative path handling in playlists
- FIX: HTTP long URL redirections (like YouTube)
- FIX: Symbian: Fix a crash when accessing the menu
- FIX: Palm: Always reset auto off timer when restoring timeout
- FIX: WinCE: More checks for the QTV detection
- FIX: WinCE: Window resizing issue when fullscreen mode changes menu and toolbar is temporarily created
- ADD: Handle the x-audio/mp3 MIME Type
- ADD: WinCE/WM: WMP Plug-ins Preferences page w/new plug-in detection scheme
- 300+ other changes

- FIX: Focus issues in some edit boxes
- FIX: Crash when a connection fails
- FIX: UDP sending
- FIX: Live streams fast forward/backward
- FIX: Avoid reloading a radio when using the left/right keys
- FIX: No time scope for YouTube 'recent' and 'mobile' categories (weekly otherwise)
- FIX: Make the Current Selection/Now Playing use the same style as the Media Library main page
- FIX: A possible double key enter use when navigation in the media library
- FIX: HTTP chunk length use
- FIX: Remove some double error reports in the network stack
- FIX: When a stream cannot be opened don't display the busy animation
- FIX: Timeout when connecting to a RTSP stream
- FIX: RTP mp4a-latm payload handling
- FIX: RTSP Helix server seeking by using pause
- FIX: Did not start to play the 'next' file if the current file has an error
- FIX: The restore position in non-DB mode
- FIX: Various HTTP enhancements
- FIX: QPEL and Quantizer artifacts in MPEG4 decoding
- FIX: The M3U probe
- FIX: The busy icon when starting the player on a still picture
- FIX: Support for some ?indirect? ASX streams (loading as a playlist)
- FIX: RTP streams with the same ID for audio and video streams
- FIX: Handling and display of Unicode characters
- FIX: The text clipping in the UI
- FIX: The font color use
- FIX: Japanese char issue
- FIX: Japanese chars work in YT queries
- FIX: HTTP Parsing
- FIX: RTSP Parsing
- FIX: For some MOV files
- FIX: Improved v1 skin UI
- FIX: CoreAVC AVCHD streams
- ADD: Card insertion/removal detection to update the Media Library
- ADD: Support for the volume keys on the Treo 600
- ADD: More PNG variants supported (including in the skin)
- ADD: SDP file support
- ADD: Scrollbar and word-wrapping in the About dialog
- ADD: An option to restore playback when put in the foreground
- ADD: More RSS detection and correct reading (like Flickr)
- ADD: RTSP support helix server's preroll parameter, like ?a=Preroll:integer;1000?
- ADD: CPU load balance in CoreAVC
- ADD: The possibility to remove an item permanently from the DB (in Current Selection)
- ADD: Improved the escaped chars reading in XML (podcasts, skin, etc)
- ADD: M4A and audio/mp4 association support
- ADD: Improved the podcast reloading accuracy
- ADD: Podcast preloading one at a time when browsing the Media Library
- ADD: More RSS fields to get metadata from podcasts
- ADD: Improved Unicode support in ID3v2 tags
- ADD: An option to give more CPU for audio decoding (off by default)
- ADD: Better TS / M2TS and AVC Elementary Stream probe
- ADD: Allow Unicode characters in YouTube queries
- ADD: Skin: Add the possibility to use icons in menubars
- ADD: Skin: Add the possibility to skin the DBBROWSER items
- ADD: Skin: Better keyboard navigation in ui_grid (Youtube and Media browser)
- ADD: Skin: Allow the use of the Delete/Backspace keys in the Media Library
- ADD: Make the visable font smoother (default is antialiased)
- ADD: Update Japanese language file
- ADD: Multi-language support (14)
- ADD: Google GData support
- ADD: Google / YouTube Integration
- ADD: RTP/RTSP support
- ADD: UDP Unicast / Multicast support
- ADD: HTTP Tunneling support
- ADD: RTCP (keep alive)
- ADD: IPTV / DVB-H Ready
- ADD: Enhanced Benchmarking (more accurate)
- ADD: CoreUI Widget Modular Isolation
- ADD: CoreUI Skin Enhancement
- ADD: CoreUI PNG Alpha Transparency support
- ADD: Core-C Enhancements
- ADD: Speex Audio support
- ADD: GSM Audio support
- ADD: WMMX Optimizations
- ADD: AVCHD M2TS support
- CHG: Language: Updated the Hungarian language file
- CHG: Language: Updated the Japanese language file
+ Plus another 2000+ changes

 

CorePlayer Platform
Mobile: CE, WM, Smartphone
Version 1.2.2 (OFFICIAL) build 3852 (20080402):

Read More:  http://www.corecodec.com/forums/index.php?topic=867.0 

- FIX: Did not start to play the 'next' file if the current file has an error
- FIX: The restore position in non-DB mode
- FIX: Various HTTP enhancements
- FIX: QPEL and Quantizer artifacts in MPEG4 decoding
- FIX: The M3U probe
- FIX: The busy icon when starting the player on a still picture
- FIX: Support for some “indirect” ASX streams (loading as a playlist)
- FIX: RTP streams with the same ID for audio and video streams
- FIX: Handling and display of Unicode characters
- FIX: The text clipping in the UI
- FIX: The font color use
- ADD: The possibility to remove an item permanently from the DB (in Current Selection)
- ADD: Improved the escaped chars reading in XML (podcasts, skin, etc)
- ADD: M4A and audio/mp4 association support
- ADD: Improved the podcast reloading accuracy
- ADD: Podcast preloading one at a time when browsing the Media Library
- ADD: More RSS fields to get metadata from podcasts
- ADD: Improved Unicode support in ID3v2 tags
- ADD: An option to give more CPU for audio decoding (off by default)
- ADD: Better TS / M2TS and AVC Elementary Stream probe
- ADD: Allow Unicode characters in YouTube queries
- ADD: Skin: Add the possibility to use icons in menubars
- ADD: Skin: Add the possibility to skin the DBBROWSER items
- ADD: Skin: Better keyboard navigation in ui_grid (Youtube and Media browser)
- ADD: Skin: Allow the use of the Delete/Backspace keys in the Media Library
- ADD: Make the visable font smoother (default is antialiased)
- ADD: MPEG4 ASP GMC optimization on x86
- ADD: MMX optimization of IDCT on x86
- ADD: MMX optimization of MPEG4 QPEL on x86
- CHG: Language: Updated the Hungarian language file
- CHG: Language: Updated the Japanese language file

 

 

CorePlayer Platform
Pro: OS X (Tiger / Leopard)
CPU: PowerPC / Intel
Version 1.2.1 (OFFICIAL GOLD RELEASE) build 3697 (20080314):

  Read more: http://www.corecodec.com/forums/index.php?topic=813.0

- FIX: Japanese char issue
- FIX: Japanese chars work in YT queries
- ADD: Update Japanese language file
- Plus another 75+ changes

 

CorePlayer Platform
Mobile: CE, PocketPC (4.x - 5.x)
CPU: MIPS
Version 1.2.1 (OFFICIAL GOLD RELEASE) build 3619 (20080312):

Read more: http://www.corecodec.com/forums/index.php?topic=813.0 

 - Same as 1.2.1 GOLD but supports all MIPS based CPU's


CorePlayer Platform
Mobile: CE, WM, Smartphone
Pro: Windows
Version 1.2.1 (OFFICIAL GOLD RELEASE) build 3619 (20080221):

Read more: http://www.corecodec.com/forums/index.php?topic=797.0 

- FIX: HTTP Parsing
- FIX: RTSP Parsing
- FIX: For some MOV files
- ADD: Internal YouTube Support
- Plus another 250+ add/changes since v1.2.0



CorePlayer Platform
Mobile: CE, WM, Smartphone
Pro: Windows / OS X
Version 1.2.0 (preview) build 3352 (20080221):
- FIX: Over 500+ Fixes
- FIX: Improved v1 skin UI
- FIX: Qualcomm QTv / Camera issue
- FIX: CoreAVC AVCHD streams
- ADD: Multi-language support (14)
- ADD: Google GData support
- ADD: Google / YouTube Integration (to be released in v1.2.1)
- ADD: RTP/RTSP support
- ADD: UDP Unicast / Multicast support
- ADD: HTTP Tunneling support
- ADD: RTCP (keep alive)
- ADD: IPTV / DVB-H Ready
- ADD: Enhanced Benchmarking (more accurate)
- ADD: Qualcomm QTv Hardware Overlay support
- ADD: CoreUI Widget Modular Isolation
- ADD: CoreUI Skin Enhancement
- ADD: CoreUI PNG Alpha Transparency support
- ADD: Core-C Enhancements
- ADD: Initial Pocket Internet Explorer integration (mimetype)
- ADD: Speex Audio support
- ADD: GSM Audio support
- ADD: WMMX Optimizations
- ADD: AVCHD M2TS support
- ADD: SMB Browsing Win32 and OS X
- ADD: Native Open Dialogue for Win32 and OS X
- ADD: CorePlayer Pro for Windows
- ADD: Coreplayer Pro for OS X
- Plus another 1000+ add/changes since v1.1

 
CorePlayer Mobile for Symbian
Version 1.1.2 build 1971 (20070910):
- REMOVE: symbian remove media key support
- REMOVE: Screen blanking menu item (where the device does not support it)
- FIX: Initial serial number entry crashing
- FIX: symbian audio quality
- FIX: symbian networking more stable (there can be still issues...)
- FIX: Flac file support
- FIX: N72 d-pad crashing
- FIX: uiq3 fullscreen toolbar hiding
- FIX: uiq3 preferneces dialog "select page" popupmenu
- FIX: uiq3 softmenu handling
- FIX: uiq3 audio
- ADD: uiq3 dpi to native 1:1 pixel
- ADD: Language selection preference page and detect the OS language in use
- ADD: '0' numpad hotkey for mute (when uninstalled and reinstalled)
- ADD: AD-41 remote support
- ADD: uiq3 dynamic screen configuration support (like P990 flip open/close)
- ADD: Improved Bluetooth support
- Plus another 50+ fix/add/changes


CorePlayer Mobile for Symbian
Version 1.1.1 build 1905 (20070829):
- First release... its all new for Symbian ;-)

CorePlayer Mobile for CE, Windows Mobile, PocketPC and Smartphone
Version 1.1.1 build 1600 (20070629):
- Add: Smartphone: icons for playback, network and busy database states
- Add: Media Library: Substantial navigation enhancements using the D-PAD
- Add: Media Library: Heart icon for selected fields
- Add: Media Library: Multiple fields selection
- Add: Media Library: Option to disable the Media Library and use the standard playlist view
- Add: Mobile: CE: Skin Zooming option
- Add: Mobile: CE: support for SMB \\path in the open dialogue
- Add: RLE and MSV1 video now supported
- Fix: Mobile: WMP API Emulation that crashed Blackjack and some other devices
- Fix: Mobile: Palm: filesystem will not show hidden files anymore
- Fix: Mobile: Palm: Media Library Scanning folders fix
- Fix: Mobile: Palm: Media Library keywords fix
- Fix: Mobile: Palm: Treo650 screen 'turning off' problem during sleep in non main windows of the player
- Fix: Mobile: Palm: command line emulation with quoted path
- Fix: Mobile: Palm: URL pasting crash
- Fix: Mobile: Palm: multiuser hack fix
- Fix: Mobile: CE: Network code additions
- Fix: Mobile: Screen size checking for displaying playback controls
- Fix: Mobile: Fixed busy database icon state on mobile devices
- Fix: Mobile: Scaling
- Fix: Media Library: others folder scanning fixes
- Fix: Media Library: other fixes
- Fix: Media Library: absolute paths are now supported
- Fix: Media Library: Podcasts reading fixed
- Fix: Media Library: Podcasts refresh fixed
- Fix: Media Library: Playlist import and open on command line
- Fix: Plug-in: Minor fixes for SPB plug-in
- Fix: Possible redraw memory leak on certain situations
- Fix: Idle processes are disabled during benchmarking
- Fix: Skin: Landscape mode buttons (return)
- Fix: Skin: Minor UI fixes
- Fix: 175+ other internal fixes


CorePlayer Platform changes between 1.0.4 and 1.1

Version 1.1.0 (20070618) (over 750 changes/updates/fixes... here is the best of the best):
- Add: CoreTheque media library
- Add: Support for Windows Mobile 6.0
- Add: Additional support for Windows CE 4.1, 4.2, etc.
- Add: Icon to allow/disallow network access
- Add: BlueTooth headphone support
- Add: Dynamic Menu system
- Add: CE: WMP UI API Support
- Add: CE: Copy, Cut Paste to Open/URL
- Add: Smartphones: Incoming call pause/play support
- Add: Storage card insertion detection and prompts
- Add: PalmOS support of launch parameters (similar to TCPMP)
- Add: SPB Shell plug-in support
- Add: MPC Audio Support
- Fix: Mobile: Soft reset on Treo after exiting the player
- Fix: Mobile: ATI 3200 Safe padding for data buffers
- Fix: Mobile: Minor PalmOS fixes
- Fix: Mobile: Treo random resetting
- Fix: Mobile: DirectDraw CE renderer fix
- Fix: Mobile: Improved ATI Imageon Support
- Fix: Software blitting fix
- Fix: CoreAVC deblocking fix
- Fix: CoreAVC AVC profile fixes
- Fix: Proper AAC support in an MPG container
- Fix: Skin misc fixes
- Fix: Multithreading fixes
- Fix: better masked skin bitmap scaling
- Fix: Various (hundreds) fixes
- Change: Network stack support for our upcoming UPNP/Seek and Share additions
- Change: Faster CoreMP3 decoding in fixed point
- Change: Skin cosmetic improvements and speed-ups

 
Version 1.0.4 (20061125):
- Add: Mobile: Support for older versions of Windows CE (4.1, 4.2, etc.)
- Add: Mobile: Hot key management
- Add: Change the button, check box, folder and top bar bitmaps in the default skin
- Add: Media properties will now only show populated tags to save space
- Add: Total frames played, dropped frames and average FPS in the Media Properties
- Add: Playlist manager: You can now add/remove/move up/move down/crop the selection
- Add: Playlist manager: You can now load and save playlists
- Add: Profile management for color and equalizer settings
- Add: Color management moved to show video window during modifications
- Add: Color management added 'profile' support
- Add: Equalizer added preset and custom profile support
- Add: Color and equalizer settings moved from Properties dialog to Player view
- Add: Keyboard navigation in Properties dialog
- Add: Windows: 3D UI Skin
- Add: Windows: Phase one Skin switching (Player closes and reloads the new skin)
- Fix: Mobile: Buffering issue for Palm
- Fix: Mobile: Device rest bug for Palm
- Fix: The thread priority is only available for multithreaded builds
- Fix: Improve the random number generator
- Fix: Misc internal UI fixes/improvements
- Fix: Menu fixes [Symbian]
- Fix: YUV fixes in the blitter
- Fix: Rare equalizer distortion fix
- Fix: Fix dynamic menus under Windows CE
- Fix: Improve WMA tag handling
- Fix: Various pixel UI changes
- Change: UI buttons for file associations
- Change: Removed redundant XML code to reduce load time and skin size
- Change: CoreUI changes in preparation for the CoreTheque Media Library integration