MP4 codec

Koenig · December 4th, 2006, 10:00 PM

I just got a video file that's in .mp4 format. What codec/player do i need to play this? Thanks in advance.

cvrefugee · December 4th, 2006, 10:15 PM

Quicktime

Viper007Bond · December 5th, 2006, 01:21 AM

VLC, Media Player Classic (probably), Winamp, etc.. The list goes on and on. images/smilies/wink.gif

I'd get VLC personally. You should have it anyway as it'll pretty much play anything under the sun. images/smilies/smile.gif

kekekeke · December 6th, 2006, 02:41 PM

MP4 is a container, like avi. So the video and audio streams inside can be encoded in various ways.

First of all you will need a mp4 splitter.
Haali's Media Splitter is taken as the standard.
http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/MatroskaSplitter.exe

After installing, try opening the file in MPC or WMP.
If you can't see video or audio, then download Gspot
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/GSpot260RC1.zip
and open the video file to analyze the various streams.

Normally it will be a combination of H264 + AAC.
After you found out how the video and audio are encoded, you can look them up on the net.

On the other hand, you can just download VLC.

Blackflag_Rms13 · December 9th, 2006, 05:23 PM

VLC ftw!

epp_b · December 9th, 2006, 08:57 PM

Use VLC. It just plays everything. Except Real media. Everything except that. Go get. Do it! Do it nooooooowwwww!

wingnutsc · December 11th, 2006, 08:55 PM

videolan updated to 0.8.6 over the weekend and one of the improvements is better h.264 playback. i tested it out and it is much better than before. my powerbook is 3.5 years old and could play this mp4 i had. it showed a frame about once every 5-10 seconds. now it plays it pretty smooth. i recommend getting the update.

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wingnutsc Joined: Nov 1st, 2004 Last Online: August 29th, 2008 Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Age: 24 Posts: 142 Car: '06 Honda Element Rep Power: 0	videolan updated to 0.8.6 over the weekend and one of the improvements is better h.264 playback. i tested it out and it is much better than before. my powerbook is 3.5 years old and could play this mp4 i had. it showed a frame about once every 5-10 seconds. now it plays it pretty smooth. i recommend getting the update. __________________ Pronounced: wing-nut-s-c

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kekekeke Joined: Aug 2nd, 2005 Last Online: August 19th, 2008 Posts: 863 Rep Power: 13	MP4 is a container, like avi. So the video and audio streams inside can be encoded in various ways. First of all you will need a mp4 splitter. Haali's Media Splitter is taken as the standard. http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/MatroskaSplitter.exe After installing, try opening the file in MPC or WMP. If you can't see video or audio, then download Gspot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/GSpot260RC1.zip and open the video file to analyze the various streams. Normally it will be a combination of H264 + AAC. After you found out how the video and audio are encoded, you can look them up on the net. On the other hand, you can just download VLC.

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