MPG3 vs MPG4

[EagleKeeper]

Daughter has XP system. Sevice Pakcs are uptodate. Auto update is on for Windows Updates.

When she looks at MPG3 files, Windows Media player comes up
She received some MPG4 files froma vacation. Will Media player handle those; is there something else that will work using XP or does she have to upgrade to view those files.

 

[Nothinman]

As with any type of media file, you need the appropriate codec. MS shipped XP with some basic ones, but not many because of licensing issues. I don't think it even handled MP3 files natively, so you must have something that came with that codec so maybe that came with a MP4 codec as well.

 

[mechBgon]

Have her try QuickTime 7, as a starting point.

 

[doan]

VLC - http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/files/1.1.5/win32/vlc-1.1.5-win32.exe/download

Will play just about anything without adding codecs