MPEG-4 Movies

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:35 +0200, Marek Pawinski wrote:
> Hi
> 
> How does one go about playing mpeg-4 movies with the mp4 extension ?
> I downloaded some open source TV episodes with MS in them and weird 
> enough they made them a mission to get to play.
> 
> Marek
> 
(What do you mean by "with MS in them"?  I couldn't understand that
sentence.)

MP4 files are either media files in Quicktime ".mov" file format (which
is the new stander file format for the MPEG organization) or audio only
files using AAC (Advanced Audio Coding, just like the ones from Apples's
iTunes Internet store).  I'm not sure, but I think AAC is also a
Quicktime file.


MPlayer, and Totem (with the Xine pack-end) should play them fine.  Just
install the packages "totem-xine" and "w32codecs"¹ and try playing them
with Totem.

Ziyad.

Footnotes:
     1. http://ubuntuguide.org/#codecs