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CorePlayer 1.2.1(w/ YouTube support!) & Pocket Player 3.6 out;gr8 Conduits price cuts
1. The latest, 1.2.1 version of CorePlayer has JUST been released, with the long-promised Mobile YouTube support. It also has Configurable YouTube quality control; let me cite their post on this: “But the BIGGEST reason why YouTube is better in CorePlayer then on YouTube.com or any other third party application? CorePlayer is the first media player to feature Configurable YouTube quality control.... You control the bandwidth and quality that your platform can handle. From Low, Medium, to High quality (H.264) streams. Once you start to play with the YT interface in CP and play with the quality settings you will see what we mean by 'Great'!!!”
Also see THIS and THIS for user reports
Note that, should you have a Symbian device, you will be interested in their 1.2.0 preview (the official version is 2-3 weeks away). There’s still no sign of the Palm OS version - other than their announcement of working on it. Finally, as far as the iPhone version is concerned, it’ll be released in about three months.
2. Conduits Pocket Player, another, excellent, albeit a bit sluggish and less CPU-friendly all-in-one player, has just been updated to 3.6 with a better thought-out interface and other goodies.
See for example THIS for more user feedback.
3. The same Conduits has just cut the price of their two flagship applications:
Pocket Slides, the only app to be able to not only display, but also edit PowerPoint presentations and
Pocket Artist, feature-wise, without doubt the best image viewer for Windows Mobile (not taking into account the order of magnitude more expensive solutions) – albeit it isn’t the fastest. See THIS for the Image Viewer Bible; note that the review of the new Resco Image Viewer is HERE and both Spb Imageer and XnView have also been updated in the meantime, fixing the bugs mentioned in the article and adding new features. Also, there’s a brand new, 4.0 version of PQV, THE fastest (but not particularly featureful) image viewer out there. Finally, Glass Lantern's PocketLoupe has been entirely discontinued in the meantime, unfortunately.
Anyone got a download link? Handago have not updated the version on their site it just downloads the 1.2.0
thesoulpoet said:
Anyone got a download link? Handago have not updated the version on their site it just downloads the 1.2.0
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See http://www.corecodec.com/forums/index.php?topic=797.0
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See http://www.corecodec.com/forums/index.php?topic=797.0
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Anyone notice the difference in scrolling after there is a song playing in the program itself not the phone, terrible.
The built-in Windows Media Player has always suffered from a major flaw: it didn’t support resuming the song from the last position after restarting the player. XDA-Devs forum member Wolfman-XP (the same guy that has also developed AVRCP support for GSPlayer) has fixed this: he has released a plug-in that remembers the last position where you press(ed) the Pause button. (Note that you MUST press Pause; as opposed to players natively supporting resume, this is a restriction – but not that a big one.)
Compatibility
I’ve tested it on the following devices:
- HTC Wizard with AMP’s WM6.1 ROM and custom WMP skin
- HTC Universal with WM6.1 Tomal’s ROM version 7.7
- HTC Vox / s710 MS Smartphone with the factory WM6.0 ROM (this January)
- HTC Oxygen / s310 MS Smartphone with the factory WM5 AKU3 ROM
- Dell Axim x51v standalone (no-phone) PDA with WM6.1
- HP iPAQ 210 standalone (no-phone) PDA with factory WM6.0
Of these devices, it was only on the HP iPAQ 210 that it didn’t work at all; all the others did, even the WM5-based models and the non-phone x51v.
Installing, using
Just download the hack HERE, in the first post, install it and off you go. Remember pressing Pause at the position you want it to remember.
After restarting WMP, it’ll take you to the Library (and not the Now playing) screen. To quickly return to the latter, on touchscreen-enabled PPC’s, click the Back arrow in the upper right corner; on MS Smartphones, just press the Back hardware button. (Alternatively, you can go to Now Playing / Play.)
Restrictions
In addition to not being compatible with the HP iPAQ 210 (and, possibly, some other devices), it isn’t able to correctly re-position in AAC files (I’ve tested both standard and HE-AACv2 files). WMA’s and MP3’s, on the other hand, work just great.
Note that...
I’ll publish a LOT of multimedia-related articles in the near future – stay tuned!
Opps! wrong place...
nice... Wolfman-XP you are the man
but Menneisyys what do you think how many people do use wmplayer...because of his pretty dumb,not flexible,and not natural interface,or the usage
tcpmp (called the core player these days) really put the standards high (supported files and intelligent interface without too much crapping around)
pocketmusic is also great...but wmplayer seems to be out of date and overcame
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nice... Wolfman-XP you are the man
but Menneisyys what do you think how many people do use wmplayer...because of his pretty dumb,not flexible,and not natural interface,or the usage
tcpmp (called the core player these days) really put the standards high (supported files and intelligent interface without too much crapping around)
pocketmusic is also great...but wmplayer seems to be out of date and overcame
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With this hack, it became pretty much usable. Of course, it sitll has major problems.
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With this hack, it became pretty much usable. Of course, it sitll has major problems.
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yeah you are right and i really really appreciate people's work around here
but it's MS it can't be that good anyway,untill there are about10-15 hacks which our good people developed and not MS
so we have a WMplayer mutation...a player that evolved from wmp ...and in the end after many hacks it will be a whole new player on a totally different base and with different features
i can't be that reckless (because my programming level is average) and ask if it would be better to make a new one instead of developing wmp
but thanks guys people don't forget good stuff and good guys
farukb said:
yeah you are right and i really really appreciate people's work around here
but it's MS it can't be that good anyway,untill there are about10-15 hacks which our good people developed and not MS
so we have a WMplayer mutation...a player that evolved from wmp ...and in the end after many hacks it will be a whole new player on a totally different base and with different features
i can't be that reckless (because my programming level is average) and ask if it would be better to make a new one instead of developing wmp
but thanks guys people don't forget good stuff and good guys
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It is worth fixing what already exists and supports video as well as audio. It may not be the most intuitive design (simplicity is better) but it is what comes with windows and works with most codecs. mainly important for familiarity, and audio video capabilities.
compatability with IPAQ 210 series
I just wanted to say that I have an IPAQ 214 and the resume plugin works OK.
It wasnt a surprise when I read it wouldnt work- loads of software seems to be unable to cope with HPs install of WM6 - but I am happy to say this isnt one of them (at least for me ;-) )
Does the plugin also work on a htc diamond??
thanx...
Kaiser here, WM 6.1
While all the options work fine, I was curious to see if it worked with shuffle switched on. While you keep your playlist, you lose the last spot on launch and you get a re-shuffle. I can understand why. Any chances of getting an option to disable Shuffle on launch? When listening to a two hour long set losing my position can be a little annoying.
Despite this, very good plugin! I was looking for a way to get around the Camera closing Windows Media Player when it opened. While this doesn't fix that, it solves the missing playlists for when it does! Sweet work.
Was wondering if this will work with WMP 12, if so could someone please help this rookie as how to get this loaded into WMP. Thanks in advance....scotty
Is there any new audiobook software then???????????
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Is there any new audiobook software then???????????
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Damd good question.
according to http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/15/samsung-unveils-android-equipped-galaxy-spica-i5700/
the new spica comes equipped with built in divx support. Is this a codec or is it an app that needs ported?
Anyone have any idea?
Nobody knows yet, as there hasn't been a dump from this device made available yet. Also, this should probably be moved to the Q&A area (or general) until there's something development wise that can happen.
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Nobody knows yet, as there hasn't been a dump from this device made available yet. Also, this should probably be moved to the Q&A area (or general) until there's something development wise that can happen.
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What about the LG Eve dump that popped up a few days ago? Now I'm no dev, but I did a little bit of peeking around in it, and there is a bunch of stuff referencing DivX and mpeg4, h264, etc.
Am I wrong in assuming something can be done with those?
Moot
Whether it's a program to be ported or a codec to be included plays no real part in the answer to your question. The simple fact of the matter is that the G1 is too underpowered to do justice to DivX, h.264 or any other high capacity codec. The Spica is coming out with an 800 MHz processor, enabling it to jump through graphical hoops that we can't.
I agree that either way, just codecs or a (hopefully) simple port of a program, that we can at least try watching DivX, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
I bet it's got the decoder in hardware. That'd be a much easier, cheaper way to do it.
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Whether it's a program to be ported or a codec to be included plays no real part in the answer to your question. The simple fact of the matter is that the G1 is too underpowered to do justice to DivX, h.264 or any other high capacity codec. The Spica is coming out with an 800 MHz processor, enabling it to jump through graphical hoops that we can't.
I agree that either way, just codecs or a (hopefully) simple port of a program, that we can at least try watching DivX, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
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My 200mhz T-Mobile Wing with 64MB of ram did DivX just fine with TCPMP media player. The G1 can easily handle it if it can bypass the java interpreter.
Sumanitu said:
My 200mhz T-Mobile Wing with 64MB of ram did DivX just fine with TCPMP media player. The G1 can easily handle it if it can bypass the java interpreter.
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Agreed, especialy if there swap running and other tweaks. Playback shouldn't be a problem but encoding and decoding would not be practical. But I guess we will see. But why not just encode to a format the g1 can handle that's what I do, so there is no need for other codec support.
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according to http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/15/samsung-unveils-android-equipped-galaxy-spica-i5700/
the new spica comes equipped with built in divx support. Is this a codec or is it an app that needs ported?
Anyone have any idea?
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The LG dump has divx support as well it looks like an entire media center, video editor and everything. From what i saw its hard coded libraries.
Libmmp_divxreg.so
zapyourit said:
Whether it's a program to be ported or a codec to be included plays no real part in the answer to your question. The simple fact of the matter is that the G1 is too underpowered to do justice to DivX, h.264 or any other high capacity codec. The Spica is coming out with an 800 MHz processor, enabling it to jump through graphical hoops that we can't.
I agree that either way, just codecs or a (hopefully) simple port of a program, that we can at least try watching DivX, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
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My G1 plays back x.264 video just fine (all of my videos I encode for my phone are x.264 with AAC audio), and when I check on my PC (without hardware acceleration enabled) x.264 takes a little more juice than a similarly encoded MPEG4 ASP codec such as DivX or XviD would. Your argument is flawed.
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And how would playback without decoding the DivX video be carried out?
/Mats
Has anybody tried the yxflash app in the market? It does wmv pretty well and does do DivX video although not convinced how well. Sometimes it's kind of jerky but not sure if that's because it's the trial version. They want $20 on their web site for the full version and I'm not going to pay that without being sure it works all the time every time. But it still gives me hope that we will be able to play DivX on our G1s one day.
Charlie
Have the phone on hands but need help of some specialist to take out rom and player from there.
pls contact me ICQ 7120916
gtalk: [email protected]
Managed to install adb drivers, but because of idiotic rom could not install any apps on it...
Have tried to play divx file- http://www.hpc.ru/soft/software.phtml?id=20980 it did, my htc magic didn't
viewing a "divx" file is simple;
1) you need to switch out the fourcc tag to one that is reconized properly (and compatible -- mpeg4-asp i.e. H263) since nobody in the real world has heard of or cares about "divx",
2) use a recognized CONTAINER format (i.e. 3gp)
3) stick to resolutions and bitrates and other encoding parameters that make sense for the particular device.
Note: The device HAS an mpeg4 decoder chip capable of mpeg4-asp (h263/divx) and mpeg4-avc (h264). The CPU is IRRELEVANT since the decoding is all done in a dedicated video decoder chip.
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viewing a "divx" file is simple;
1) you need to switch out the fourcc tag to one that is reconized properly (and compatible -- mpeg4-asp i.e. H263) since nobody in the real world has heard of or cares about "divx",
2) use a recognized CONTAINER format (i.e. 3gp)
3) stick to resolutions and bitrates and other encoding parameters that make sense for the particular device.
Note: The device HAS an mpeg4 decoder chip capable of mpeg4-asp (h263/divx) and mpeg4-avc (h264). The CPU is IRRELEVANT since the decoding is all done in a dedicated video decoder chip.
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Apologies. I did not realize the G1 had a dedicated chip for such things.
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Apologies. I did not realize the G1 had a dedicated chip for such things.
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Even if it didnt have the mp4 decoder it still has enough power for divx, every windows phone I had has lower specs or the same processor and played them fine.
The G1 def has enough power I am not sure where you got the information, not being cocky but thats some bad information to spread around.
1Way
lbcoder said:
viewing a "divx" file is simple;
1) you need to switch out the fourcc tag to one that is reconized properly (and compatible -- mpeg4-asp i.e. H263) since nobody in the real world has heard of or cares about "divx",
2) use a recognized CONTAINER format (i.e. 3gp)
3) stick to resolutions and bitrates and other encoding parameters that make sense for the particular device.
Note: The device HAS an mpeg4 decoder chip capable of mpeg4-asp (h263/divx) and mpeg4-avc (h264). The CPU is IRRELEVANT since the decoding is all done in a dedicated video decoder chip.
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So, having some kind of app decoding h263 when fourcc is divx or dx5 ecc instead, the main problem reduces to the support of common PC "containers" like avi, i'm right?
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Even if it didnt have the mp4 decoder it still has enough power for divx, every windows phone I had has lower specs or the same processor and played them fine.
The G1 def has enough power I am not sure where you got the information, not being cocky but thats some bad information to spread around.
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Agreed.
My Windows Mobile 2003 Samsung SCH-i730 played any video file I threw at it flawlessly.
Flawlessly.
Saying that the G1 is too underpowered is just complete and utter misinformation.
1wayjonny said:
Even if it didnt have the mp4 decoder it still has enough power for divx, every windows phone I had has lower specs or the same processor and played them fine.
The G1 def has enough power I am not sure where you got the information, not being cocky but thats some bad information to spread around.
1Way
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Every windoze phone you had also had a decoder chip. So what?
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So, having some kind of app decoding h263 when fourcc is divx or dx5 ecc instead, the main problem reduces to the support of common PC "containers" like avi, i'm right?
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No, the trick is to simply *change* the fourcc to h263 and/or be able to RECOGNIZE divx AS h263. Adding in more DEMUXERS (not decoders) would also help with dealing with additional containers, HOWEVER, there really isn't much point in supporting avi, since it is a terrible container that doesn't take A/V synchronization into account, AND it is typically used for video's that are over the resolution and bitrate limits.
Note: there may be licensing issues when dealing with certain container formats. I suggest staying as far as possible away from anything that carries a microshaft label on it (like avi, wmv, etc.).
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Every windoze phone you had also had a decoder chip. So what?
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What? Man you do not even make sense pfff
The point was a phone with less or equal to hardware specs could play the video fine.
Oh and BTW you should also know that the Windows Mobile Platform never optimized ANYTHING for the decoders built in the phones.
Most recent windows phone for the past a few years has a 3D accelerator that was NEVER used nor optimized expect by a Sony game released for the xperia. (which other phone could run with the correct DLL copied over as well, showing microsoft was lazy on 3D acceleration)
So much for not using the decoders eh?
The point in case you missed it is that WITH or WITHOUT the decoder the G1 has enough power to play the video.
Please use google if you need spoon fed information ...
Just thought i'd start a thread polling people on their top apps.
So what 10 apps couldn't you live with?
I think this has been asked before somewhere on here, but it will be interesting to here more.
...i believe that the next thread will be "what are your top 15 apps?"...buzz me if i'm right
lol no just got my hd2 today and thought this would be a fun way of finding out the best apps to get
my top 10
FPSECE
Morphgear
Nitrogen
xda shutdown
i-nigma
Resco file explorer
facebook
opnmarket
DivX Player
eWallet
Palringo
Flix
OnTV
WhereIs
OpnMarket
MTreeSize
Midomi
MobileTFL
MyPlayer
and few more....
Shake2Send
WebTV
ShopingCart
SpoonUKFlights
UKTrains
uConvert
there is quite a lot VERY USFUL apps round some are free some not...
regards
5 Apps that make the phone half useable
Androkidd, s2u2 , idialer- User Interface
Quick menu - Amazing little drop down menu to open and close apps quickly
AE button plus - remap the hardware buttons to 3 functions each like scrolling up and down, page turn etc
Resco File explorer and Registry - unfortunately alot of things on win mo have to be tweaked using tips from XDA.
Zoomer and Rotate screen and Bsb Tweaks - essential apps to mutitouch any app, rotate any app or apply essential tweaks.
5 Apps that make the phone half decent
TomTom - GPS navigation with a free city map of your choice
Skype - voip to voip free calls. Useful if you have an unlimted data package and low minutes or freinds on other networks.
OpnMarket - a decent and much needed free app store
5 Apps that make the phone pretty cool
Opera Mini (check out iris browser and skyfire too) - Browser
Coreplayer for snapdragon and DivX - Media viewing
FPSECE & Morphgear- Games
Adobe Reader or Foxit- PDF
5 Apps that we don't have
Vlingo or Dragon Dictation
I will edit it later
Coreplayer for Snapdragon?
brandi said:
Coreplayer for Snapdragon?
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there's one doing the rounds extracted from the tg01 which uses hardware acceleration. not legit though as its only licensed for use with the Toshiba
To be honest, have tried the Acer/TG01 versions of Coreplayer and in my test it's rubbish, mild increase on some file formats, normal version 1.36 of Coreplayer easily outperforms the supposed Hardware accelerated versions and these so called HW accelerated versions were unstable.
1-Resco explorer 2010 - It is very user friendly with a lot of function file explorer for HD2
2-Torchbutton - It is very usefull small program to enable led flash as a torch, you can add this to your program tab or assign as a button!
3-resco photo viewer 7.03 (multitouch support) - multitouch support and editing support software for viewing and editing pictures
4-googlemaps - ???!!! no need to explain
5-hicalculator - the best calculator for HD2 in my opinion with many (i really mean MANY) functions...
6-xdashutdown - for soft reset
7-coreplayer for snapdragon - for playing video and audio files support many formats!
8-spb wireless monitor - for measuring how many kilobytes or megabytes you use with your data,usb and wifi connection!
9-midomi 2.3(though it doesn't work correctly but i have to work on it) - just search then you will get what this is, it used for music recognition
10-foxit reader (for viewing pdf files and it is quicker than adobe reader )
and of course for those who are frustrated from htc messaging VITO SMSChat + registry hack(in order to make vito, the default sms application)
A small discruiption along with the app would me nice
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A small discruiption along with the app would me nice
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+1 Yes please!
Doesanyone have any lind to download TomTom 8.40 fro eastern europe?
Seems great aplication!
xavierdemon said:
To be honest, have tried the Acer/TG01 versions of Coreplayer and in my test it's rubbish, mild increase on some file formats, normal version 1.36 of Coreplayer easily outperforms the supposed Hardware accelerated versions and these so called HW accelerated versions were unstable.
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Yep, HTC Album outperforms it as well, much smoother and better quality with correctly encoded videos.
I still use the retail 1.36 for music and standard dvd/tv rips.
Izorai said:
Doesanyone have any lind to download TomTom 8.40 fro eastern europe?
Seems great aplication!
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Check PM.
Grtz,
Degake
Coreplayer for SnapDragon
Can any kind souls provide the link to this Coreplayer for SnapDragon please?
Or at least point me in the right direction by giving the correct filename?
TIA.
Morphgear, FPSEce, Resco Explorer, CorePlayer, Pocket Player, allReader, Opera, Pigeon!, Twitter tab , google maps, rss hub, youtube application, xdaShutdown.
Very cool thread but to have value to it you should include what the app does, I'd say it's more important than download link.. I'm gonna add my list later
Coreplayer first and foremost! So, I'd love to try the SnapDragon version. I'd appreciate a link or a point in the right direction.
I just thought about the thing that there's no good video player for android, that decently plays .mkv files in 720p, even on the Desire HD.
But what about Archos? They have also Android as OS, and use a 1 GHz Processor ( ARM8 I think) in their newer devices.
But even the Archos 5 IT could playback 720p with its 800 MHz CPU. May it be possible to implement the ARCHOS media player on other Android devices?
Or is it coded too specifically, using the graphics accelerator so only the Archos can work with that app?
Would love to here ur oppinion about this
Sorry if this question is too dumb,
Hi Dr lele
I recently started work on my DHD and found a program called arkMedia. You can download it from your app store for free. It works very well for me right accross my varied media including avi, flv, mp4 etc...
I believe this is the tcpmp equivalent for android.
I hope it works for you as well as it is working for me.
Kind regards,
J
maybe arcmedia?
Thank You I'll try it
But I'll also try to get the app from the archos to the DHD maybe the video player works. That would be pure awesomeness
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I just thought about the thing that there's no good video player for android, that decently plays .mkv files in 720p, even on the Desire HD.
But what about Archos? They have also Android as OS, and use a 1 GHz Processor ( ARM8 I think) in their newer devices.
But even the Archos 5 IT could playback 720p with its 800 MHz CPU. May it be possible to implement the ARCHOS media player on other Android devices?
Or is it coded too specifically, using the graphics accelerator so only the Archos can work with that app?
Would love to here ur oppinion about this
Sorry if this question is too dumb,
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No software player will help you overcome what hardware can't do , 800 MHz to 1000 MHz is not the issue here. Alot of things make a CPU package for phones, CPU is just a general purpose hardware not fast enough for 3D games or 720p+ video decoding.. . There are several software players out there with their own codecs that will use your cpu in software mode , you will be able to play avi,divx,xvid if your phone can't already do so, but to playback 720p you need alot more horsepower or specialized hardware. Your Desire HD has Snapdragon CPU
Archos 5 does have slower general purpose CPU less MegaHertz but ! that CPU happens to be Cortex-A8 it is more geared for media has "NEON™technology for multi-media and SIMD processing".
Same CPU but slightly faster is in my AT&T Captivate and or any other Samsung Galaxy S phone.
I can playback 720p video no problem high bitrate H264,x264 ect. Amongs many video containers it can also playback MKVs and with some help from players like "mVideoPlayer" it can even render internal and external subtitles.
You can only blame marketing and low education of general population , where everyone thinks all CPUs are equal and only MegaHertz that matters
Hope that was educational for you , in case it was not short answer , Player from Archos 5 will not help you play 720p video. It is not the player that does the hard work.
Ah thx... thats sad news, but i feel a little bit smarter now and somehow I expected that there's a reason for the DHD's original Media Player not to playback mkv containers
So with a Samsung Galaxy phones i could playback more media files... thats really interesting because I looked for an Android Phone which combines the powers of the Archos PMPs and an Android Phone