mpeg4 in Media Player

slothmeister · 11 Sep 2007 at 14:53

Hi guys, i've just downloaded a episode of lost from the itunes store but i want to play it in media player rather than itunes or quicktime as i can only seem to get surround sound in media player.

However media player doesn't recognise the mpeg4 format, what codec do i need to play these files?

Thanks

manjuice · 11 Sep 2007 at 15:35

http://www.free-codecs.com/FFDShow_download.htm

(I'd recommend downlaoding the 'K-Lite Codec Pack'.)

badbob · 11 Sep 2007 at 15:38

(I'd recommend downlaoding the 'K-Lite Codec Pack'.)

I wouldn't.
FFDSHOW will do the job fine.

slothmeister · 11 Sep 2007 at 15:48

erm scuse my ignorance, now what?

I've downloaded ffdshow and installed, however file will still refuse to play in media player, do i need to change anything within media player?

badbob · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:31

hmm usually it should work. Are you sure it's mpeg-4? Open gspot and post a picture here what the audio/video container is.

Energize · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:46

Itunes is infested with drm. The video will be encrypted and unfortunatley there isn't anything you can do to get it to play in wmp short of re-recording it. In the future you should buy videos in the wmv format because you can strip the encryption effortlessly.

slothmeister · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:56

off topic then, are you able to buy files off of itunes in different formats?

Energize · 11 Sep 2007 at 17:05

slothmeister said:
off topic then, are you able to buy files off of itunes in different formats?

You can buy music in an unprotected 256kb/s format, however they are more expensive. I am not aware of any alternative video formats.

slothmeister · 11 Sep 2007 at 17:10

ah yes, itunes plus. Oh well looks like i'll have to 'buy' the dvd's