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| Hi guys, I am trying to get an mp4 to play through windows media 10. I have downloaded numerous codecs including the cole2k, but windows still does not recognise the file. I am new to all this so a.b.c. steps would be much appreciated  . I am operating xp home edition and win med 10. Thanks for reading. | |
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| Right click on the file, select "Open With" then slide accross to "Choose Program", you will then see a list of programs, scroll down and select windows media player, then check the box that says "Always use this program to open these files". | |
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| Hiya thanks for replying it does not give the choice to open with. Just a straight open that is when windows kicks in and says file not recognised. | |
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| use the right hand mouse button, not the left | |
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| i have i am not that bad lol | |
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| Sorry lol, some people can be pretty bad
You should get something like the captures here:
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 Image1.jpg (60KB - 303 downloads)
Image2.jpg (28KB - 295 downloads)
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| hiya, on the screen it has open with but no arrow next to it. If i open it with Foo whatever it was called lol I can get sound. If thats any help. Media doesnt seem to want to play anything apart from music mp3's. I am looking for a rope now i have had enuff lol. | |
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| This may help, its a registry file to tell windows what type of file .mp4 files are, you only need to run it once, it will ask if you wish to modify the registry.
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forced context mp4.reg (0KB - 273 downloads)
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| thanks for that i ran it through but no change. Do you think the film might be corrupt? I am just waiting for another film to try different format, see if I get any joy out of that one. Then its the ropeeeeeeeee lol thanks for your help by the way much appreciated. | |
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| MP4 is a fairly new format so a lot of people are churning out some fairly messed up files, some people are even renaming files from .avi to .mp4 just to keep up with the jones's.
Don't send the file to the great recycle bin in the sky yet, you may have a media type problem on your system, but you'll soon know that if other video's wont play.
PS. Did you know there is an online test here http://www.cole2k.net/?display=VideoTest it takes a while to load but you can check a few AVI types with it. | |
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can anyone help me please?
