Shot a vid with my Touch...won't play on my PC?

MistahTibbs · #1 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 03:42 AM

Hey all,

Shot a quick vid with my Touch.

It's mp4 format. Plays on the Windows Mobile Media player on the phone but when I try to play it in WMP 11 I get an error.

What the heck's going on?

MT

Never mind. I figured it out.

Yes. I AM embarr*****.

MT

remydakid · #2 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 03:43 AM

you might need to convert the video to another format (avi, mpg etc.) or maybe your wmp doesnt have (a mp4 plugin)?

timdawgdentist · #3 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 05:09 AM

find super its free

jimt29 · #4 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 07:40 AM

There are 2 things you could do:

1. Install VLC Player (free). It will play MP4's.

2. Change the Settings in the camera. Set the camera to Video and go to Settings in the lower right corner. Go to the right tab and select Capture Format. Set it to Motion JPEG.

Now when you take a video it will save it in the *.AVI format and will play in Windows Media Player.

Enjoy.

Thanks are always appreciated.

buddhatikkigod · #5 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 11:38 AM

if you want i'll send you a copy of a video encoding program i have... its pretty easy to take the file, drag it into the program and then select how you want to convert it. What video codec you want and you can even resize it.

ALso i would recommend getting KLCodecs its a pack that contains pretty much all video codecs and it comes with MPC Media Player Classic, a nice stripped down version of a media player that takes up much less resources. During the install you can click not to install MPC if you just want codecs.

caleb02 · #6 (**permalink**) 08-12-2008, 01:51 PM

i would just install both realplayer at www.real.com and also itunes with quicktime (yes the combo package) and then all should be fine.

MattOktaNZ · #7 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by caleb02

i would just install both realplayer at www.real.com and also itunes with quicktime (yes the combo package) and then all should be fine.

Real player is so 1990's and naggy just like acrobat reader

caleb02 · #8 (**permalink**) 08-15-2008, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MattOktaNZ

Real player is so 1990's and naggy just like acrobat reader

or try videolan.org

but real player has the support out of the box and i dont see whats wrong with real player now that Microsoft and Real are working together to develope real player. so basically real is now an offspring of Media Player but in drag