You can use the Core Media Player TCPMP version 7.1 and above to view iPod videos on your Pocket PC or Windows Mobile device. You will also need the ffmpeg plugin and to hear the audio you will need to download and install AAC decoders from here
iPod video is encoded in a format called H.264 a high compression rate which I believe produces files sizes smaller than that of DivX.
The audio is in AAC format. For licensing reasons TCPMP does not support this format as standard.
I’ve installed TCPMP and the AAC decoders on my iPAQ 1945 and was able to watch a film (Crash) with no delays or artifacts and the sound was excellent. So from one charge of the battery you’re looking at 2 hours or more of video playback.
With the use of a battery extender you could power your Pocket PC indefinately on a long haul flight. Battery extenders take AA batteries and plug into the charge port of your pocket pc they are available from amazon.
Anonymous
Hi, I use windows mobile 2003 SE, but I cant seem to get this working, I use tcmp 7.2 and installed the AAC codec, but It still says I cant play the file?
ne solutions?
thnx
Link | April 17th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Ian Purton
If you send me alink to the file you’re trying to play I’ll test it.
Thanks
Link | April 19th, 2006 at 3:38 am
Anonymous
I get the following error message trying to view an iPod-file:
Player: video codec (AVC aka H.264) not supported by the player!
I’m using version 0.71 of TCPMP… so I don’t understand how you can play H.264 files?!?
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Link | April 21st, 2006 at 7:43 am
Anonymous
Me with the H.264 problem again… now it works
I just needed the ffmpeg-plugin… cool!
Link | April 21st, 2006 at 8:11 am
Anonymous
The test AVC codec is much faster than the ffmpeg codec for H.264 files, but finding the codec is difficult. It will be out soon again when CoreCodec releases a new codec pack. You can’t play protected iTunes files, though. Apple would have to license that.
Link | May 30th, 2006 at 10:33 am
Anonymous
I downloaded TCPMP 7.2 and FFMPEG from the first site, and BetaPlayer AAC plugin from site 2. I get the title screne but nothing will play. I am trying BSG that I got from I tunes.
Link | June 11th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Anonymous
I installed the player and plugins but when I try to play iPod movie trailers, the video keeps skipping and cannot run smoothly.
Link | July 4th, 2006 at 3:46 am
ian
I installed the player and plugins but when I try to play iPod movie trailers, the video keeps skipping and cannot run smoothly.
H.264 videos do require a lot of processing power. Some videos are encoded at a high data rate and will skip on lower powered pocket pc’s.
Link | July 4th, 2006 at 3:51 am
Anonymous
So is there any way for me to ensure that the videos do not skip?
Link | July 21st, 2006 at 11:53 pm
Anonymous
use mendocder (comes with mplayer) to re-encode the pod, then you won’t need any plugin for TCPMP:
Example on windows version:
mencoder mypodcast.mp4 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=500:acodec=mp3:abitrate=96 -o mypodcast_ppc.avi -sws 2
If you have problems with space of a very slow pocket pc, you can play with the bit rates.
Good luck!
Link | July 28th, 2006 at 2:01 am
Ms. A
Can someone prpvide me with a link and plug-in link and instructions on viewing pics and videos via email on my dell axim x3….PLEASE!!!! THANKS!!!
Link | September 16th, 2006 at 2:08 am
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Link | October 10th, 2006 at 4:19 am
Phil Anderson
I installed tcpmp.palmos.0.72RC1 on a Palm TX and tried to play a XVID video from the expansion card. It played perfectly. I then tried to play a NONPROTECTED MP4 video from the same card. Received error that AAC support had been removed. Added AAC plugin, had sound but error that H.264 not supported. Added ffmpeg plugin. I can now open the MP4 video, and use the progress bar to “scroll” through the scenes (they look fine). But if I hit play, the TX soft reboots, every time. I tried it with two other MP4 videos, on another expansion card, with identical results. I’m puzzled that the video displays correctly a frame at a time (manually), but that tapping play always produces a crash. It does not appear to be a memory issue as I can “scroll” from one end of the MP4 to the other. Also, the XVID that played perfectly was a bit larger than the largest MP4. Any ideas? Thanks.
Link | December 13th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Karie Hamilton
I’m having problems with TCMP. After installing on Moto Q. Avi file (approx 1.5 hour) video keeps looping. Is there a way to “shrink” the file for os x or do I just need more memory? Help!
Link | December 28th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Petro
I got my TCMP to play IPOD files (MPEG4 and AAC audio) on my PPC.
This is what I did:
Download the program from http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/
Download the MPEG4 plug-in from the same site ( http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/ )
Download the AAC plug-in from: http://www.rarewares.org/aac.html (make sure to download the file under: BetaPlayer AAC plugin )
Note: the only way that I got these two plug-ins to work on my PPC was by opening the .CAB file inside the phone.
One last thing. I’m watching some old MPEG4 videos that I had copied from my TIVO using TIVO desktop plus (make sure to use the audio boost feature on TIVO desktop because the sound level is low).
I hope that this helps someone.
Link | March 18th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Edgar
I have an iPaq with tcpmp player installed. I installed the aac.ARM.cab to play .mp4 files but they still would not play.
I just now tried installing the aac.ARM_SP.cab (which is indicated for use with MS Smartphones (for SP2002,WM2003 SP,WM2003SE SP). Good news!
Nice!!!! Finally– quicktime files for my ppc!
My ipaq is running WM5, so I’m surprised that it worked. Try that file and if it doesn’t work, try another.
Link | May 8th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Edgar
one more thing… my ppc is not a phone, it’s a hx2795
Link | May 8th, 2007 at 12:23 am
13COOLKID
I have a cingular 8525 and I followed Petro’s guide, and it really helped, THANX BRO
Link | May 10th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Thomas Kirkman
Thank you so much for this info. It was driving me crazy. I did what you said, and it works great.
Thomas
Link | May 13th, 2007 at 1:47 am
Hugo
I did what Petro said, installed the 2 plug-ins but when i copy and paste a video from my PC to my phone it seems to play very slow, it skip and skips is their any way to fix that on my cingular 8125
Link | May 26th, 2007 at 6:14 am
Lawrence
I have this blasted skipping problems as well,,,rendering the whole viewing thing as useless. Help!
Link | July 8th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
greencloudz
Thanks. That’s working very well.
Also I’m getting a lot of buffering in watching youtube streaming to tcpmp.
Anyone have an idea how to reduce the buffering.
I have an HTC Trinity, using Edge on usa T-mobile.
green
Link | August 11th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Philip
I got it to work on my Mogul after install only the two .CAB files for Pocket PC as Pedro wrote.
Now it can play AVA aka H.264 movie using the TCPMP 0.72RC1
BUT, but …
It is very very slow when doing the H.264 movie.
Any help on this?
Link | September 25th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
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Link | September 27th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Kenner
Ian, You are the best person ever. Thanks so much for all the help. Everything works PERFECTLY! Thanks again
Link | November 19th, 2007 at 12:48 am
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Link | November 28th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Sérgio
Hi,
I have a HTC3600, and can´t see files in MP4, i already installed the TCPMP but when i open to see a movie i have tho erros, one is: Video codec (AVC aka H.264) not supported by the player, and the othet one is: MPEG4 AAC Audio decoder not included,
Can you help me please.
Tks
SF
Link | December 3rd, 2007 at 10:07 am
Jesuit
“Petro wrote,
I got my TCMP to play IPOD files (MPEG4 and AAC audio) on my PPC.
This is what I did:
Download the program from http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/
Download the MPEG4 plug-in from the same site ( http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/ )
Download the AAC plug-in from: http://www.rarewares.org/aac.html (make sure to download the file under: BetaPlayer AAC plugin )”
Thankx this works perfect for my Palm TX.
Downloaded all the files to my mac, then unzipped, then synchronized with palm.
I also installed all the extra plug ins.
Videos play really nice. Some videos would sound great but the images would look choopy.
That problem went away after playing around with advance and all the other menus available.
Thanks for your help.
Link | December 12th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Bruno
Hello,
I have a Dell Axim x51v and to read video H.264 with TCPMP v0.72RC1 I ‘ve downloaded the plugin ffmpeg.plugin.0.72RC1.zip and the AAC Decoder.
It works perfectly , thanks for your help
Link | February 26th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Lou
I am also getting the “video codec (AVC aka H.264) not supported by the player!” error with my (WM 6) Touch. I tried everything suggested here but no luck. Perhaps the problem is WHERE all those files have to be stored? Should they all be in the same folder, on the same card?
Link | March 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Malcolm
Having downloaded some free to air MP4 ipod videos I spent days trying to get them to work with various media players on my Fujitsu Loox 500. I then found this page and after installing the files above managed to get video and audio displayed. However, I’m averaging 9 fps and out of 2400 frames, 1500 were dropped. resulting in very jerky video. Anyone have any advice.
The PDA plays Divx videos fine (even DVD’s converted to Divx via dvdFAB) - so why does it struggle with MP4 files ?
Malcolm
Link | March 27th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Juan alvarez
Does somebody know where can I find CoreAVC codec for TCPMP? thanks
Link | April 18th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
justin
i converted an .mkv movie file into H264 format in hopes to play it on my ipod touch. when i did so i tried viewing the converted file on my computer and it was skipping a lot. will this happen on my ipod as well?
Link | January 24th, 2009 at 3:25 pm