May 7, 2006
TECHNICAL ADVICE FROM MY BROTHER
Help playing movies on this site
Problem playing MP4 movie on Windows
Use VLC or QuickTime for Windows to play MP4 movies. Either will work.
- Download VLC for Windows.
- Download QuickTime for Windows.
The movies are in MPEG4 format and should play on any computer which can play MPEG4 movies.
On an Apple Macintosh computer you will have QuickTime (versions 6.5 or 7 or later) which can play the movies. On a Windows PC computer you need software other than Windows Media Player (latest version is version 10 as of this writing) which does not play MPEG4 format movies.
Some of the movies will not play in QuickTime 6.5 (an old version) because they use the H.264 video codec. Use QuickTime 7 or VLC instead.
On Windows you can play the movies if you have QuickTime (version 6.5 or later, also included as part of iTunes) or another MPEG4 player. A very good, free player is VLC. Download VLC for Windows and Mac OS X from http://www.videolan.org/.
Why MPEG4 movie format?
The MPEG4 movie format allows us to show movies that have a good size picture at a good quality without making a very large download file. The movie format also works well for players other than Windows Media Player on Windows. WMV movie files also provide good quality and small downloads, but can be difficult to play on non-Windows computers.
Making the download size small means you get to download the movie faster and we save on bandwidth costs.