for my edification, will these files play on dual boot mac? best...jf

On May 2, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Lee Larson wrote:

On May 2, at 5:19 AM, R.D.Preston wrote:

I recently downloaded a couple of movie files that are .mp4 type.
These will not play with any of the standard video players I have,
which are:

QuickTime Player
VLC
Divx Player
Windows Media Player

What will I need to play these on my system?  I'm currently using
version sys10.4.11, on a Mac Mini from a LaCie FW external.

Like QuickTime, MPEG-4 is a container not a codec. There are many different codecs designed to work with MPEG-4 (H-264, DivX, 3ivX, XviD, ... ) and a few of them do not exist on the Mac. I've run across Microsoft MPEG-4 version 3 files quite often, and I don't think they can be played on a Mac. Usually the Inspector menu item in QuickTime player will give you a clue or two about the codec.


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