MP-4 on WIN 11 - calling the geek squad

[Don Baer]

OK I tried to play some video I shot with my drone which saves them as an MP-4 file. They will play fine on my win 10 machine but it seems Microsoft in their wisdom has decided that no on e would want to play MP-4 files in win 11... the error says I have the wrong codex (what ever that is)... HELP

 

[Ted Calver]

Not a geek, but several solutions found on the web. Have you tried this ?:
On the Tools menu, select Options. Select the Player tab, select the Download codecs automatically check box, and then select OK. Try to play the file.

 

[Don Baer]

Not a geek, but several solutions found on the web. Have you tried this ?:
On the Tools menu, select Options. Select the Player tab, select the Download codecs automatically check box, and then select OK. Try to play the file.

Thanks Ill try it.... why does microsoft make things so difficult.

 

[Leo Voisine]

Part of getting older is "remembering". I do remember having that problem, but I do not remember how I fixed it. Maybe it was with Adobe Elements video editing. I will go take a look.

 

[Leo Voisine]

OK, I do remember finding a player that could play the vids but that was last summer and I still had my older i7 early gen with Win10. I did find a player, there are several choices but I do not remember what I ended up with. I now have my new HP gaming super computer with win11 and have the same issue. No Codec.

I can load the drone vid into Adobe Elements Premier that I use for video editing and it plays the drone video, edits and can be saved in a variety of formats that can be uploaded to youtube.

 

[Brian McMillan]

Download K lite codec pack. It is free and covers most file types and comes with Media Player classic .

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

Like many of the apps that come with Windows, there are better free alternatives, IMO. I use the VLC media player for video playback. It's free and lightweight (not a system hog).

Official download of VLC media player, the best Open Source player - VideoLAN

www.videolan.org

 

[Darren Wright]

I have some editing software on the mac, but for windows I've been using Filmora.

[OFFICIAL]Filmora Video Editor - Powerful Video Editing Tool for PC

Filmora is powerful video editing software for PC to edit & personalize videos with rich templates, effects, music, text, filter and more elements. Download Filmora and try.

filmora.wondershare.net

I also use VLC for playback.

 

[glenn bradley]

Another VLC guy. Another benefit is that you can use it on Windows and unix so you can have a common look and feel across OS.