As you download more and more RSS feeds, there will undoubtedly be links to media files. To assist in playing various media files on your Pocket PC, I've compiled this page for you. Here is a growing list of players available for the Pocket PC, Windows Mobile platform. Many of these have not been tested by me in any way (as indicated by "Status"). If you test any of these, please post your experiences on our message board. Listing on this site does NOT constitute an endorsement of suitability or stability. MEDIA PLAYER WISH LIST - DEVELOPERS CLICK HERE Go To Chart Media Players List of players at pdagold GSPlayer - v2.10, 11 Nov 2004 Status: Untested Formats: MP3, Ogg, Wave, MP3/Ogg HTTP/SHOUTcast streaming Cost: Free Special Capabilities: Green Software MortPlayer Status: Untested Formats: MP2, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and WAV, Streaming: HTTP/SHOUTcast Cost: Special Capabilities: "Car mode", pause for phone call, skins Mirko Schenk Basic play functions and formats seem similar to GSPlayer. Different interface, though, and possibly different playlist support. TCPMP - 0.71b (test) (formerly Betaplayer) Status: Untested Formats: mpeg4 video (XviD,DivX), mp3, vorbis. vonage voicemail files (ccitt u-Law format) Cost: Donation requested. Special Capabilities: Speed settings, EQ+pre-amp,3rd-party plug-ins, Issues: TCPMP Unofficial download and plugins PocketMVP Status: Tested Version .8.011804 Formats: DivX, MPEG-4, XviD, MPEG-1, VP3, Matroska, OGM and AVI Video as well as MP3, WAV, OGG, MIDI audio. Cost: Open source released under the GNU GPL license Special Capabilities: Issues: does not launch file if already playing a different one. PocketMVP - Website is tricky, notice the dark link/menus at the top of the page. Version .8.011804 does not launch a file correctly if it is already running. You can notice this "incorrect" behaviour with PocketMVP by noticing that when PocketMVP is already playing a file, if you go to File Explorer and tap on another file for PocketMVP to play, PocketMVP does not play the new file. It continues to play the old file. Apparently, File Explorer expects the same behaviour as FeederReader. WinamPAQ - v1.0 Beta Status: Untested Formats: mp3?, wma Cost: freeware Special Capabilities: WinamPAQ    WinamPAQ information and website largely in Korean. Cannot find supported list of file types. Pocket Player Status: Untested Formats: Cost: Special Capabilities: PocketMusic Status: Untested Formats: Cost: Free Special Capabilities: Edit ID3 tags PocketMind Platform4 Player for Pocket PC 3.0 - Philips Status: Untested Formats: mp4, m4r , aac, amr Cost: Freeware Special Capabilities: tuttoericsson [Menneisyys on PocketPCThoughts.com, 10 Jan 2005] Its MP4 support is very bad. I've tested it with two additional MP4's (the first was its own MP4 file, which it played OK): 1, an MP4 file created with PL720's built-in Camera app 2. www.digimax.com.tw/MPEG4/download/hc/Digimax_CF2.mp4 It wasn't able to play them, while BetaPlayer could play the latter. PictPocket Cinema - Digisoft Status: Untested Formats: QuickTime Cost: $ Special Capabilities: Streaming Digisoft 11/26/04 - "The only program for Pocket PC that supports MPEG-1, AVI, QuickTime, WMV and ASF video as well as JPEG, BMP, TIF and many more." [I don't know if this "only program" is true.] [Menneisyys on PocketPCThoughts.com, 10 Jan 2005] Definitely not true. BetaPlayer has much broader (real) compatibility. As for "plain" image formats, tons of image viewers are better. And, WMV/ASF is only supported through the well-known PIE WMP plug-in, not natively. As for M-JPEG / MPEG1/ QuickTime compatibility: Casio: - (unknown image format), HP: +, Canon: +, Nikon : + where I've used four different video files, produced by four different, well-known cameras (Casio QV-2900UX (M-JPEG), HP Photosmart 850 (MPEG1); Canon Digital IXUS 40 (M-JPEG); Nikon Coolpix 2000 (QuickTime)). The video formats used by these cameras are almost always the same in the other cameras of the same manufacturer. MP4: +/-/- (the first being the MP4 file shipped with the Philips player) Its biggest problem for VGA users is that it's only usable in true QVGA mode, unlike BetaPlayer. Verdict: the latter is better in all respects (price, compatibility, VGA). More comments and additional image viewers with limited video support from Menneisyys at PocketPCThoughts RealPlayer for Pocket PC Status: Untested Formats: RealAudio, RealVideo Cost: Free Special Capabilities: Streaming Requires: 200MHz+ intel XScale or StrongARM Real Networks   26 Oct 2004 - from rsljfp on PocketPCThoughts - RP does not support windows media player (WMP) formats - Several codecs are not available for PPC, so, some RP streams can't play on a PPC - It seems like RP PPC can't do NAT traversal (informed hypothesis), so, to stream, the client PPC must be in the DMZ behind the router, or, directly connected (say, from a verizon 1x service)   Pocket Player 2, Version 2.52 - Conduits Status: Untested Formats: mp3, ogg, wma, wav; streaming: HTTP, Windows Network, Shoutcast, Icecast Cost: $19.95 Special Capabilities: Bookmarks Conduits   iMusic - CITSoft Status: Untested Formats: MP1, MP2 and MP3 file format but various file format like ogg, wma, wav etc. Also, support CBR and VBR Cost: $ Special Capabilities: CITSoft TodayPlayer Status: Untested Formats:   Special Capabilities:   Issues: TodayPlayer From TodayPlayer web site: "Due to circumstances beyond your control, I have stopped working on TodayPlayer. I suggest using MortPlayer; it includes a Today plug-in. " PocketTV Classic Status: Untested Formats:   Special Capabilities:   Issues: PocketTV PocketTV Status: Untested Formats:   Special Capabilities:   Issues: PocketTV    PQV 3.0 Status: Untested Formats:   Special Capabilities: QuickTime   Issues: An image player with video capabilities BitBankSoftware [Menneisyys on PocketPCThoughts.com, 10 Jan 2005] Casio: + HP: - Canon: + Nikon : + MP4: no support at all Didn't work in the default direct screen access mode on the PL720. Tested in true QVGA (no forced VGA). Slow, appr. 8-10 fps video. VLC Status: Untested Formats:   Special Capabilities:   Issues: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Pocket PC version: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-wince.html Currently, their page says: The WinCE port of VLC is still experimental but you can get nightly builds for the Xscale platform. Use at your own risk ;) It looks like there's a build from 2004 available, but I don't know how well it works. Being from 2004, it might have trouble supporting various screen sizes other than 320x240. Formats supported by the desktop version may not be supported by the Pocket PC version: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Nero ShowTime Mobile Status: Untested Formats: MP4 AVC/AAC Special Capabilities:   Issues: http://www.nero.com/en/Nero_ShowTime_Mobile.html It's in "Beta 2" http://www.nero.com/en/Nero_ShowTime_Mobile.html Currently, their page says: Nero ShowTime Mobile is FREE of charge if you register: A Full Version of Nero Software Version 6 or higher Retail Version or Downloaded Version iPlay Status: Untested Formats: mp3, m4a (AAC?), ogg, flac, MP4 AVC/AAC Special Capabilities:  gapless playback, variable speed/fixed pitch, EQ and Reverb Issues: 40th Floor Media Types MP4 11/11/2004 - MPEG4 encompasses several file formats which can be confusing. These include DivX, Quicktime and some Windows Media files. A player that can handle one won't necessarily play the other. Windows Media Player can play WMV and ASF files, BetaPlayer and PocketMVP can play DivX and so far "no Pocket PC player can handle QuickTime." [not true, see PictPocket] AVI John McGowan's AVI Overview AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave.  It is a special case of the RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format).  AVI is defined by Microsoft. On Media Types - by picard, author of BetaPlayer, 10 Jan 2005 In general every format has a statistically most commonly used codec combination. Example 3gp=h.263+amr mp4=mpeg4+aac avi=iso mpeg4 (divx,xvid)+mp3, ogm = iso mpeg4+vorbis, wmv = wmv+wma. Of course this not always the case, especially with digital cameras. I think h.263 is not that common with digital cameras, at least this is why I add it so late to BetaPlayer. Most non mjpeg cameras are using iso mpeg4 or an older version of msmpeg4. But h.263 is common with camera (smart)phones.