ccit Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 They are the same laptop make and model. The one that is struggling to play MP4 on Media Player Classic actually has more RAM than the other (it is 2GB) and yes, they both run Vista Home Basic. The machines are all fully updated but I can certainly compare the graphics drivers when I have them booted up. It does seem strange that one can cope and the other can't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccit Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 I have scanned for updated drivers on the computer that is not playing MP4 properly and it comes back with best match. Have therefore converted them all to avi with Sweetpacks converter and they are playing OK so will leave it at that as it is no problem really - the software is very easy to use. Thank you for your interest and help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sami88 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 download quicktime player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccit Posted July 28, 2012 Author Share Posted July 28, 2012 Thank you sami88 - will give it a try because if it works then perhaps I won't have to convert the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mankeedly Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 VLC does play MP4 files, but it has strict limitations: VLC Media Player is only compatible with MPEG-4 ASP, DivX 4/5/6, XviD, 3ivX D4 and H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC. However, MP4 is a multimedia container format with many kinds of video and audio codecs. If your MP4 file contains a VLC unsupported audio or video codec, VLC won't play it. In this case, we'd better to convert MP4 to VLC more popular video formats to solve "VLC won't play MP4" issue. Faasoft Video Converter is a wonderful and highly recommended tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swarfendor437 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 (edited) SMPlayer (cross-platform) comes with all necessary codecs - give that a try! http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/ Update: this also has gubbins attached to it so always choose 'Custom' install for the first bit, and 'Advanced' for the second bit - there is a lot of stuff you don't need when downloading smplayer now! Edited September 28, 2014 by swarfendor43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Well MP4 is a container and not a video or audio codec. Download MediaInfo and find out what is contained in the MP4. I've never had an issue with VLC. Don't install Quicktime.....just don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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