Can't play mpeg4 in windows media player

[chunky]

Hello,

i have installed Windows Media Player 11. But even after installing this player i am still unable to play Mp4 file, I recently uninstalled and re installed my video codecs. I have saw some threads on other forums which says that you cant play Mp4 files in windows media player. is it true ? . Which Types of files you can and can't play in Windows Media Player.

[Sam.D]

You can not play Mp4 file in windows media player, Here is the list of file format supported by windows media player

• Advanced Systems Format (ASF)
• Windows Media Video (WMV)
• Audio Video Interleaved (AVI)
• Media Center Recorded Television
• MPEG video
• DVD video

[JonathanD]

Windows media player wont play the video if the proper codec is not installed, Typically, Windows Media Player automatically downloads any required codecs from the Internet and installs them. However, this may not happen for the following reasons:

• The necessary codec (typically, a non-Microsoft codec) isn't available on the codec server.
• You have an older version of the Player and your automatic codec-download option isn't enabled.

[Macarenas]

MPEG-4. You can play files with .mp4 file name extensions in the Player if you install a DirectShow-compatible MPEG-4 decoder pack. MPEG-4 file format, as defined by the MPEG-4 specification, contains MPEG-4 encoded video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)-encoded audio content. It typically uses the .mp4 extension. Windows Media Player does not support the playback of the .mp4 file format.