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Thread ID: 85597 2007-12-15 20:00:00 MP4 player for pc? Neil McC (178) Press F1
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621469 2007-12-15 20:00:00 Just bought myself a Sony Walkman.Had to install Media Player 10 to see it in explorer.Have copied an mp4 file off of it to pc but I have nothing that plays it.
I'm not sure on what to download,not fussed on codec packs.Any suggestions please.
Neil McC (178)
621470 2007-12-15 20:04:00 VLC Media player. should be able to. www.videolan.org can play anything as far as i know. Cho (12330)
621471 2007-12-15 20:34:00 Thanks cho.I did have VLC but uninstalled it.Didn't like it changing all my icons to traffic cones! Might have to go back to it. Neil McC (178)
621472 2007-12-15 21:02:00 you can manually change your Icons once you have installed it to anything you like so not really a problem gary67 (56)
621473 2007-12-15 21:08:00 VLC is one of those good as programs you don't need to install.

It's not very clear but if you download and extract the 7-Zip archived version from the download page (www.videolan.org) (second section), you just place the VLC media player folder where ever (like Program Files). Right-click+drag the vlc.exe icon to the Desktop and select "Create Shortcuts Here". Done.
sal (67)
621474 2007-12-15 21:35:00 As the youngsters would say (I think) COOOL sal.Thanks. Neil McC (178)
621475 2007-12-15 23:29:00 You can always use Portable-VLC or Portable-MPlayer from portableapps.com -- The advantages of VLC and MPlayer without the installation ;) Chilling_Silence (9)
621476 2007-12-15 23:55:00 You can always use Portable-VLC or Portable-MPlayer from portableapps.com -- The advantages of VLC and MPlayer without the installation ;)

Yeah, I had a "portable apps!!!" phase a couple of years ago. I've settled on a good set for my USB stick (nz.neopages.org) which always come in handy.
sal (67)
621477 2007-12-16 00:13:00 Winamp is also a good one that can play these, although apparantly they've added advertising recently - I haven't looked at it since the 5.0.x days, so I can't comment on that.

And yes, VLC is brilliant - it can play just about anything :thumbs:.
Erayd (23)
621478 2007-12-16 02:04:00 Thanks guys,I think VLC will do now.Have uninstalled Winamp after finding GOM. Neil McC (178)
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