I'm always looking around at different media players, thinking hey, maybe I've missed something wonderful.
As a multimedia player, MMP tries to cover a lot of ground, but it does so at the expense of the robustness of better coded players. At least it’s try-before-you-buy-ware, and you can demo it at no cost, which I advise you do before you plunk down your cash for an unlock code. In demo mode, you can peruse your video library to ensure compatibility. The demo version is crippled; it plays files for only a few moments, but that is still long enough to find out if it will play your movies at all, before you commit to buying it.
Problems aside, MMP is the least expensive of the multimedia players for your Treo and has lots of interesting GUI configurations, which make it stand apart in the aesthetics department. So, while MMPlayer has some nice cosmetic features, and tries to wrap four major functions into one app, its lack of playable codecs and the buggy nature of its video streaming make it a less than ideal candidate for the “player of the month club”.
It certainly does nothing to knock Kinoma Player 4 EX out of my top all-around King Kong of PalmOs media player throne, nor does it beat Pocket Tunes (Deluxe) as my choice of best MP3 player. This is a program with a lot of potential – its developers just need to pound away on their code some more, so it delivers on its promise.
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| Pros |
Plays many video formats and MP3 files.
Skin based interface – make it look the way you like it.
Streams video and Podcasts over your wireless Internet connection.
Bookmarks save your place when you need to take a break.
Pan and Zoom in videos.
Rotate videos from portrait to landscape, even flip upside down.
Create and save multiple playlists.
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| Cons |
Must install into internal RAM (900KB).
Supports fewer A/V codecs than CorePlayer.
Does not play Neuros-recorded “PDA/iTunes” encoded MPEG-4s.
Video streaming does not list directory contents as advertised..
Does not support HTTP Authentication. |
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