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I can't play mp4 and m4a files and wondered if anybody else has had any luck with them. I found a site that offers a codec but I don't know anything about it. Any insights?

http://www.3ivx.com/download/windows.html

Thanks.



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Okay, this takes care of m4a in winamp

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/MP4 ... Winamp.htm

I have been using realplayer for those two file types.
Quicktime player works sometimes for those but not always.

What about DivX? Will those file types play using that?

On my .m4a files I get an unsupported format error with Divx
On my .mp4 files I get the same error except in some cases the video part of the file will play.

I have looked and was never able to find a free codec that let me play either of those formats with windows media player. I did find one that claimed it would play them but they wanted $$$ to dowload it. I am sure I could find a crack/hack for it somewhere but since those file types are rare and I can still play them I didnt bother.

Realplayer used to be bloatware and packed with spyware, no? Is it any better now? There's a realplayer alternate but I haven't looked at real media so long I know nothing of it anymore.

I have divx installed but it doesn't cover these file types.

I installed the 3ivx.com codecs and it plays.... but in the old media player not the new. Kinda weird. And I read some fine print that says it's a limited edition demo. It'll do what I need but it would be nice to get more permanent, user friendly, solutions.

I havent tried it but when I was looking for a proper codec I saw several programs that would convert them to mp3/mpg files, you might look for one of them.



I have version 10.5. I have had it installed for over a year with no spyware at all that I could contribute to it. Just be sure to do a custom install when you run it the first time, that way you will know what it is putting where. They only thing I did was disable realsched.exe from running all the time at startup.

Thanks Woody. Since I have them currently working for my needs, I'll let it go at that. But in future, I'll try and build up my nerve and give realplayer a shot.