MP4 and M4A files

Post by **Phineus** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:59 pm

I can't play mp4 and m4a files and wondered if anybody else has had any luck with them. I found a site that offers a codec but I don't know anything about it. Any insights?

http://www.3ivx.com/download/windows.html

Thanks.

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Okay, this takes care of m4a in winamp

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/MP4 ... Winamp.htm

Woody · Post by **Woody** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:28 pm

I have been using realplayer for those two file types.
Quicktime player works sometimes for those but not always.

SLO_SCATTER · Post by **SLO_SCATTER** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:56 am

What about DivX? Will those file types play using that?

Woody · Post by **Woody** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:43 pm

SLO_SCATTER wrote:What about DivX? Will those file types play using that?

On my .m4a files I get an unsupported format error with Divx
On my .mp4 files I get the same error except in some cases the video part of the file will play.

I have looked and was never able to find a free codec that let me play either of those formats with windows media player. I did find one that claimed it would play them but they wanted $$$ to dowload it. I am sure I could find a crack/hack for it somewhere but since those file types are rare and I can still play them I didnt bother.

Post by **Phineus** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:27 pm

Realplayer used to be bloatware and packed with spyware, no? Is it any better now? There's a realplayer alternate but I haven't looked at real media so long I know nothing of it anymore.

I have divx installed but it doesn't cover these file types.

I installed the 3ivx.com codecs and it plays.... but in the old media player not the new. Kinda weird. And I read some fine print that says it's a limited edition demo. It'll do what I need but it would be nice to get more permanent, user friendly, solutions.

Woody · Post by **Woody** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:06 pm

I havent tried it but when I was looking for a proper codec I saw several programs that would convert them to mp3/mpg files, you might look for one of them.

Realplayer used to be bloatware and packed with spyware, no? Is it any better now? There's a realplayer alternate but I haven't looked at real media so long I know nothing of it anymore.

I have version 10.5. I have had it installed for over a year with no spyware at all that I could contribute to it. Just be sure to do a custom install when you run it the first time, that way you will know what it is putting where. They only thing I did was disable realsched.exe from running all the time at startup.

Post by **Phineus** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:47 am

Thanks Woody. Since I have them currently working for my needs, I'll let it go at that. But in future, I'll try and build up my nerve and give realplayer a shot.