Playing MPeg-4 in Windows Media player and ffdshow?

Question

is th program - ffdshow- needed to play mpeg4 on WMP or is there an easyer way? i havent done any kind of search for solution untill now. i want to use anything better then QuickTime Player or Itunes to play mpeg4's.

Answer 1

There are 2 surefire solutions for playing any type of video:

Get the CCCP pack:

http://www.cccp-project.net/

It's a codec pack that has all the codecs you need(including ffdshow). So you can play videos on any media player.

Get VLC:

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

VLC is a self-contained video player that can pretty much play any videos in the world. It has all the codecs built in. This is safer to me since the codecs are built in and not all over my system.