Playing MP4 files (Olympus)

Salad

As well as photos from my Olympus camera, I can record video with sound - the files can be copied to my PC and come as MP4 files.

I cannot find anyway of playing them ... any suggestions gratefully received!!

Thanks.

Rothko

Real player or Quicktime should

The Prince-e-Paul

yes agree. i've got an olympus and use quicktime to pla them. you should have got a disk with camera for loading the software

cafcpolo

Nifty little player called VLC Media Player is avaliable for free download if you dont have quicktime. That'll play them, is very useful I find. Plays pretty much everything & comes with a ton of codecs unlike Media Player.

Carey_Valley

Keep buying olympus cameras boys and girls, i work for olympus and we need the money ;-)

cafcpolo

[cite]Posted By: Carey_Valley[/cite]Keep buying olympus cameras boys and girls, i work for olympus and we need the money ;-)

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Carey_Valley

Hey ! i'm not bald ;-)

Salad

[cite]Posted By: The Prince-e-Paul[/cite]yes agree. i've got an olympus and use quicktime to pla them. you should have got a disk with camera for loading the software

Tried Quicktime - it plays the sound fine but the picture is a green scramble :-(

... I shall try VLC (not that I have any idea what a codec is)

Thanks!

cafcpolo

VLC will work, does for me. A codec is basically something that plays compressed videos.

Salad

Thanks Polo .... that is progress!
VLC sort of plays it - it only shows the top left quartile (approx) of the film though - any suggestions re: settings? I have tried the obvious with zoom etc.
Sound is good :-)

Cheers.

cafcpolo

Sounds very strange, have got loads of MP4 files and never had a problem like that. Where did the file(s) originate from?

Could always try Ace DivX Player, not tried it but heard it plays MP4s as well. You may have to search under All Files though when loading it. Link below mate.

DivX