WHAT IS MP4

[mamelukesabre]

How is mp4 different from mp3 and what do I gotta do to my windows media player to make it play mp4?

[max americana]

I volunteer for an anime fansub and everyone knows/uses VLC, hands-down. Prefer MP4 for our subs because it is the de-facto technical format for MP4 used in network broadcasts. If the Freeper asked what MKV is, we’ll be on this thread for another day LOL

[editor-surveyor]

Real Player loads your computer with so many snoop tricks that it grinds to a halt.

[screaminsunshine]

Madman Poilitician with 4 Trillion dollars.

[John Valentine]

Hey Max, what’s MKV?

LOL!

[John Valentine]

Oh, yeah - and more importantly, is it supported by LRF?

[ThunderSleeps]

MP4 is actually a container file format. The mp4 file typically contains other files (or "streams") for video and audio. It may also contain subtitle information etc. There are just a couple of common formats for the video and audio streams inside an mp4, but in theory you could use just about any format you want in what's called a private stream inside the file. Of course, that's not much good/help if you can't find player software to decode it, so it is best to stick with the usual/standard formats for video/audio within the mp4.

That's the long-winded techie version. The short version is it is a digital movie with sound.

[Mr_Moonlight]

download Real player

YIKES!!! You can't be serious ... that 100% SpyWare and Take-Over-Your-Computer software is the bane of the computer world. It's a wonder they're still in business and pushing that POS still.

Every link to Real and/or RealNetworks has been BLOCKED/BANNED on every computer that I have .. I make a point of it whenever setting up a new machine.

There are other, safer ways of getting an MP4 to play, mainly by downloading and installing codecs (often free) for Windows Player ... as several have mentioned here already.

Avoid 'Real' like the miserable plague that it is!

/OK .. rant off :)

[Vermont Lt]

VLC rocks. It really can play just about everything.

[max americana]

Yup. Love it, without downloading the known codec packs such as K LITE or CCCP. I also have WMP and Media Player Classic. The 1 advantage of Media Player Classic above the rest of them is it’s the 1 which can make a screenshot of multiple scenes in the entire movie file. It matters in my line of work.

[bobby.223]

Ah, a fellow oldster huh Cripp?! Hell, I don’t even know what an MP anything is!!!.....But do I remember those knobs.. and Hi-Fi!!!! Reel to reel was neat also...

[Real Cynic No More]

The short answer: mp3 is audio and can be played on numerous players and your pc. Mp4 is video with audio for movies, and can be played on players such as ipod that have video capabilities, or on your computer with itunes or quicktime software.

[HP8753]

Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten? Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

[Revolting cat!]

I am a computer hardware engineer, though this is not my area, I admit. Be that as it may, as I understand, MP4 requires iPad2, USB 3.0 and Windows 8 to run.

[jeffc]

YIKES!!! You can't be serious ... that 100% SpyWare and Take-Over-Your-Computer software is the bane of the computer world. It's a wonder they're still in business and pushing that POS still.

What you said. I hate REAL. I don't like Quicktime, either. Too hard to control. My PC is mine. I'll decide when something loads into memory, either at startup or whenever. I am kinda' hooked on WMP internet radio, though . . . .

BTW, Piriform's Ccleaner is a great tool for removing things from MSCONFIG, not just disabling. Why can't MS allow you to remove unwanted items from the startup? And it loads it's uninstall list about 10 times faster than MS Control Panel. Good for clearing out unwanted cookies and removing leftover registry items when installing a new video driver. And it's free.

[mamelukesabre]

LOL

there’s no windows 8 yet. We’re still on 7. 8 comes out later this year. But that’s not even the funny part, revolting! The funny part is the other day you told me you were in the sitcom/TV industry.

[JRios1968]

what do I gotta do to my windows media player to make it play mp4?

1. Are you logged in?

2. Get in the shower

3. ?????

4. PROFIT!!!!

[Mr_Moonlight]

My PC is mine. I'll decide when something loads into memory, either at startup or whenever.

Dittos.

For stopping Real (and other persistent pests), I use Startup Inspector (free) and ZoneLabs Security Suite (not so free)... Real is gonna try to download and install itself automatically sometimes thru some backdoor. ZoneLabs might not be able to prevent that install, so if it does do an install then Startup Inspector will prevent it from running, while Zone is set up to stop any and all I/O from RealNetworks and it's many variant URL's.

I've worked out a series of tweaks to both of these programs and when used in tandem have been *real* free from it's nonsense for several years now .... it's still sitting there as an installation, but if I happen to land on some pathetic website which still features embedded Real video it ain't going nowhere .. and I feel sorry for any website still using it, they just lost my online 'eyeballs' forever

[mamelukesabre]

I went to startup inspector for windows and read about it. it says its for these operating systems: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT

That’s no good for me. I’ve got vista.

[Mr_Moonlight]

That’s no good for me. I’ve got vista

Well, my sympathies that you have Vista (/shrugs) .. but otherwise Startup Inspector works great on XP and might even work on Vista too, all ya can do is try and if it doesn't work then just delete it.

I have a newer 64bit machine running Windows-7 but haven't tried to install Startup Inspector on it because there is no need to, as I use this machine for video production/editing exclusively and it only rarely gets access to the Internet, so no need to protect against the dreaded REAL

[Lancey Howard]

[BACK TO THE POLICE CAR]

JERRY: Nice shotgun.

COP: Thanks.

JERRY: Clean as a whistle.

GEORGE: You could eat off that shotgun.

JERRY: What is that, a 12 gauge?

COP: Yeah.

JERRY: 12 gauge. Seems to be the most popular gauge.

GEORGE: My favorite.

JERRY: Mine too, love the 12 gauge.

GEORGE: Makes the 11 gauge look like a cap pistol.