last update: November 7th, 2008

Since posting this back in October it has become by far the most visited page on here. Google Analitics says it brings over 71% of trafic to this blog (which is mind blowing actually). I really appreciate your visits and comments but please do not expect me to solve problems you may encounter when trying to install the software mentioned below. This post was intended merely as a reference to all the pieces necessary to play flv files on WM6 and nothing more. I have no connection with any of the developers and I honestly don’t know enough (about TCPMP, Windows Mobile, PDAs…) to act as tech support. I’m affraid you’re on your own. Good luck.

Yesterday I spent the better part of the evening trying to find something to play .flv movies (youtube et al) on Windows Mobile 6. You know how boring those train rides can be… Anyway, it was surprisingly hard to find one and that’s why I even bothered to start writing about it.

First few search hits promised that the TCPMP project should handle the job. It didn’t… Until I found the right .flv plugin on sourceforge this morning. And now those train rides will be just a little bit less frustrating. ;)

Just one additional note though… TCPMP as such has been discontinued and transformed into a commercial CorePlayer however the .flv plugin mentioned above won’t work under it. FLV is supported but (for some incomprehensible reason) not available in the consumer version (just the OEM version). Maybe its open source brother BetaPlayer will be of some use.

Here’s one for the return trip:

featured comment by Nilrin

The problem some people are having, is if you decide to install the program and plugin onto your storage card instead of the built in memory, it’ll properly install the player but will mistakenly install the plugin files in your built in memory anyways. Just move those files (probably in \Program Files\TCPMP) into the same thing wherever the TCPMP program is supposed to be installed.

It’s been a while since I’ve cleaned up subscriptions in sharpreader. 20 or so feeds appeared to be dead so those went out the window, a few more needed some attention because URIs changed etc. and I’ve added some new ones.
Among them is one I’ve also added to the blogroll in the upper right corner of this blog- The Late Greats, self described as “the home of greatest songs never heard”. I tend to agree most of the time. The posting frequency is far too big for me to keep up but I’ve found some great songs through it already. Awesome, goes down well with The Hype Machine…

I’ll also point out APhotoEditor. An anonimous insider with some interesting things to say on the business of photography. A slightly more philosophic and academic twist to photography comes from Conscientious. One could say the familiar words of Mike Johnston et al of The Online Photographer fall somewhere between these two so you’re nicely covered from all angles. That is if your interest in photography extends beyond gear talk and pixel peeping.

That’s it for now. No, you don’t get to find out how many feeds I subscribe to ;)

view south from Pršivec, Bohinjsko jezero somewhere below

A sunday roundtrip starting at Savica (653m) up through ÄŒrno jezero (1319m), Pršivec (1762m), planina Viševnik (1625m), planina Ovčarija (1660m), Štapce (1851m), Mala Tičarica (2071m), Dvojno jezero (1685m), ÄŒrno jezero and back to Savica… 10 hours.

I lost a half litre water bottle somewhere, probably while we were busy getting lost ourselves on the way up Pršivec…if, by some weird coincidence, someone finds it… enjoy. It did cause me some problems though as it was a long way to go dry. I had to steal some from the dog reserve (she’s a camel anyway and didn’t mind) and melt snow before we finally got to some running water near the end.

Dvojno jezero from Mala Tičarica

Continued in the gallery as usual but Teja cares a lot more about taking good photos up there so here’s a few good ones from her.