On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Sebastian Smith wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Colin Corr wrote:
What's mp4 and what program should I use to play an mp4 file?
- jim
Greetings Jim & William,
mp4 is short for MPEG-4, which is another multimedia encoding standard.
If you are an iTunes music store shopper, then you are probably already
familiar with it by another extension, AAC. (Except that Apple adds a
bit of DRM to the encoding).
The funny thing about MPEG-4 is that it can act as both a container object
and as a codec. Fortunately MP4 containers can only hold MP4 encoded
multimedia.
Check that. MPEG-4 container objecst are also backwards compatible with
previous MPEG standards.
DIVX and XVID are also MPEG4 variants -- for what that's worth.
Here is more technical detail on mp4:
http://www.audiocoding.com/modules/wiki/?
page=MP4&PHPSESSID=9e0d0492019c94c392ddb896158f34f2
You should be able to play non-DRM protected mp4 files with Mplayer and
VLC, and ~possibly~ with RealPlayer10
If you are feeling adventurous, you could check out mpeg4ip
http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/mpeg4ip/
You can dig up a lot more information with a quick google.com/linux
search (http://tinyurl.com/8zwpy)
Hopefully someone else will chime in with some specific information on a
good player/plugin combination.
Regards,
Colin
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