h.264 in Windows Media Player? (FFDShow doesn't seem to work!)

[Matt]

I've got some h.264 files that i would like to play on my MCE box, so i need to get h.264 working in WMP. It works fine in VLC but WMP gives the error that there's no available codec. FFDShow is installed but doesn't seem to do anything, and i gather VLC just does h.264 out of the box without any extra codecs?

Any ideas as to how i can get this to work? It's quite annoying that FFDShow appears to do nothing at all!


Thanks

 

[Matt]

It needs to work in Windows Media Player. FFDShow seems to do nothing with any video files (and yes, it's a new version).