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| Thread ID: 81333 | 2007-07-24 09:57:00 | MPG4 player that will work on win98se? | Zoober (12586) | Press F1 |
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| 572127 | 2007-07-28 10:29:00 | Ooooops! Sorry I stated that I am happy with win98se for most things. I did not intend to start a PC or O/S war. Just freindly banter. I for one was trolling ;) This box has Windows 98 orig on it btw. Oh found this comment about m4vs- ".m4v files are raw mpeg-4 part2 video streams (not h.264). you can place them in .mp4 with mp4bx (yamb gui) for example after that you can play them in mplayer, videolan or in any directshow player (eg wmp) after installing the haali media splitter + ffdshow for example... however there is another possibility: if these files were created by a braindead apple tool, they are already .mp4 files with the wrong extension yeah apple loves to do braindead things" |
Bonez (10505) | ||
| 572128 | 2007-07-28 10:59:00 | Just freindly banter. I for one was trolling ;) however there is another possibility: if these files were created by a braindead apple tool, they are already .mp4 files with the wrong extension yeah apple loves to do braindead things" Only from a windows perspective.:waughh: |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 572129 | 2007-07-28 11:04:00 | Only from a windows perspective.:waughh: Seems the fishing is fine tonight. Full moon? |
Bonez (10505) | ||
| 572130 | 2007-07-28 11:06:00 | Apparently so. I was going to come up with some windoz comments but can't be bothered dropping to that level. YouTube seems to think pretty highly of the h.264 codec as they have replaced the Adobe Flash with h.264 and re encoded all existing uploded videos to h.264. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 572131 | 2007-07-28 11:18:00 | Apparently so. I was going to come up with some windoz comments but can't be bothered dropping to that level. YouTube seems to think pretty highly of the h.264 codec as they have replaced the Adobe Flash with h.264 and re encoded all existing uploded videos to h.264.Isn't google a wonderfull tool- en.wikipedia.org |
Bonez (10505) | ||
| 572132 | 2007-07-28 11:23:00 | Isn't google a wonderfull tool- en.wikipedia.org I don't know, I didn't get my info from Google, although I do have about 40+ tech based RSS news feeds in FF. ;) Apple and Google are in partnership Google owns/bought YouTube Apple did deal with YouTube to use h.264 for its HD codec in order to spread the use of it around the web and to limit the uptake of Adobe Flash. Eric Schmidt (Google) sits on Apple's board of Directors. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 572133 | 2007-07-28 11:27:00 | however there is another possibility: if these files were created by a braindead apple tool, they are already .mp4 files with the wrong extension yeah apple loves to do braindead things" Only from a windows perspective.:waughh:Actually according to this page (all-streaming-media.com) Bonez is quite correct MP4 file extensions MP4 files can have the following extensions: .mp4 - official extension .m4v - .mp4 files with the WRONG extension introduced by Apple for video+audio files, .m4v can be safely renamed to .mp4 (.m4v is used in Apple iTunes and iPod) .m4a - .mp4 files with the WRONG extension introduced by Apple for audio-only files, .m4a can safely be renamed to .mp4 .m4p - used by Apple iTunes for DRM protected files .m4e - renamed .sdp files used by Envivio for streaming .m4v, .mp4v, .cmp, .divx, .xvid, .264 - normally raw mpeg-4 video streams (not inside MP4) .3gp, .3g2 - used by mobile phones, can also include content not defined for .mp4 (H.263, AMR) Seems the fishing is fine tonight. Full moon?ROTFL, nicely hooked :thumbs: |
Myth (110) | ||
| 572134 | 2007-07-28 11:32:00 | Fair enough although Apple would probably have a reason for what they do being that my understanding is that the mp4 codec that Apple uses is based on open standards unlike .wma Personally, as long as it works, I'm happy. :) |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 572135 | 2007-07-28 11:47:00 | That quote I pasted was from Nov 2005. Have a good night guys n gals. | Bonez (10505) | ||
| 572136 | 2007-07-29 06:10:00 | Whooooooo Hoooooooo! I changed the file extension from .m4v --> .mp4 as suggested by Bonez and Myth. WMP9 actually played it! I then tried out the VideoLan VLC media player 0.8.6c as suggested by zqwerty. It works like a charm. Much more user friendly than WMP9. Think I will dump WMP9 and stay with VLC. Many thanks to all who responded with suggestions. There is life in the old dog yet (win98se) Zoob |
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