Aguy wrote:
Windows XP Home
Want to play .mp4 videos.

VLC cannot handle it and pixelates.
Audio comes through \ok.

My laptop has a 1.6GHz processor.

process explorer show 95% going to \vlc.

not much else running.

IE same problem

Window Media Player Series 9 cannoot play at all.

Suggestions please.

Some other player ?

VLC should really be using a pretty good library for this.

You could look for "ffplay.exe" for WinXP.

https://msfn.org/board/topic/177308-...ws-xp-in-2017/

https://rwijnsma.home.xs4all.nl/files/ffmpeg/?C=M;O=D

ffmpeg-N-92765-g2744d6b-win32-static_legacy.7z 2018-12-22 03:00 29M

Open with 7ZIP to decode it.

ffplay.exe 64,577,536 bytes SHA1= A1C381A41142E2FBF82553A5C0794E2E242D4BC9

Clean

https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/12...230a/detection

ffplay some.mp4

I have no idea how well that will work. I fed it a test video,
and scaling to your processor, it should work.

HTH,
Paul