What do you use to play MP4 videos on Vista?

I have been using HandBrake to rip DVD movies on my new Mac. It works really well. I transfered one of the files to my Vista machine to see how the movie would play back. But Windows Media Player does not support MP4. I found lot of players that will view MP4s, but I have no idea which to choose. If you play back MP4 on XP or Vista, what do you use?

 

I have not tried but Im most certain my KMPlayer will play them fine.

If you want to play them with WMP, look at this guide.

 

MPUI, KMPlayer, or any DirectShow player with FFDShow installed (Media Player Classic).

Download the Haali media splitter if you need to use WMP:

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/codecs_and_filters/haalimediasplitter.cfm

 

VLC Player will play them and most other formats on vista

 

Thanks. VLC is the one that I chose. It has a minimal install, which is one of the things I wanted. Plus it has some LAN features that I would not mind fiddling with. Maybe I can set a video server with it. We'll see...

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

The quality of the video playback is very good.

Still, I would not mind finding a plugin for Windows Media Player. I find it odd that Microsoft has chosen not to support it. This leaves the door open for people to switch to iTunes instead.

I don't want to use iTunes in this example, just because I want to see if I can get WMP to play MP4 and H.264.

 

Windows Media Player with the mp4 Codec installed you'll find this in K-Lite Codecs Full or Mega Pack

 

mp4 isn't a codec. It's a container like avi or mkv that can contain numerous types of video and audio. You need a directshow splitter (Haali) and a codec. If you ripped to h.264 in Handbrake you need a h.264 codec like ffdshow or a commercial version like coreavc.