Hi,

I have quite a large collection of movies in mp4 which i watch using
quicktime or VLC. Is there any way to watch them using Media Centre. It would
make life a lot simpler for me.

Thanks

nick c wrote:
> Hi,
> I have quite a large collection of movies in mp4 which i watch using
> quicktime or VLC. Is there any way to watch them using Media Centre. It
> would make life a lot simpler for me.


It is possible. It may not always be trivial though?

I installed Nero's player/codec (Showtime 2?) They seem to brand their mpg4
as "Nero Digital".

You may need to change filter merit's (I did) because it breaks (= takes
over) some? mpg2 playback. I noticed that suddenly I had problems playing
"fat" mpg2 files (HiDef bit rates). I solved it (I was lucky?) by raising
the merit 1 step for my PowerDVD6 dvd/mpg2 codec and lowered it one step
for the Nero codec.

I tried some other mpg4 codec's first but that didn't work for me. Note, I'm
NO expert at this I just tinkered a bit. In any case *mp4 files and all
else playes fine after that.
(Cool detail: "thumbnails" are created for mp4 files)

I'm taking this from memory btw.

Try adding this to the regsitry
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4]

"Content Type"="video/mp4"
"PerceivedType"="video"


"kalev-" wrote:

> nick c wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have quite a large collection of movies in mp4 which i watch using
> > quicktime or VLC. Is there any way to watch them using Media Centre. It
> > would make life a lot simpler for me.
>
>
> It is possible. It may not always be trivial though?
>
> I installed Nero's player/codec (Showtime 2?) They seem to brand their mpg4
> as "Nero Digital".
>
> You may need to change filter merit's (I did) because it breaks (= takes
> over) some? mpg2 playback. I noticed that suddenly I had problems playing
> "fat" mpg2 files (HiDef bit rates). I solved it (I was lucky?) by raising
> the merit 1 step for my PowerDVD6 dvd/mpg2 codec and lowered it one step
> for the Nero codec.
>
> I tried some other mpg4 codec's first but that didn't work for me. Note, I'm
> NO expert at this I just tinkered a bit. In any case *mp4 files and all
> else playes fine after that.
> (Cool detail: "thumbnails" are created for mp4 files)
>
> I'm taking this from memory btw.
>
>
>