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Old February 1st 19, 03:34 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Aguy
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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 ?

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Old February 1st 19, 04:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bill in Co[_3_]
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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 ?

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Suggestions:

Check your configuration settings in VLC. There are several settings there
that you could experiment with for the video playback. The fact that you're
getting pixelation suggests it's attempting to play the video, at least. Or
perhaps you could use an updated version of VLC.

Try Chrome and see if it plays in there. (IE8 is almost useless now on most
sites). Firefox (the XP version) is getting more problematic with time,
since the web is always changing, otherwise I would have suggested it, too.


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Old February 1st 19, 06:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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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
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Old February 1st 19, 12:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , Paul
writes:
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.

[]
I'd certainly go for a standalone player like VLC or ffplay, rather than
trying to play inside a browser.

There _may_ be some settings you can tweak, but I fear if VLC is
pixellating, then it's trying, and you're just running out of processing
power.

If you use VLC's slow down buttons, do the videos play at half, third,
quarter speed?

If so, live with that for now, and look into reducing the resolution of
the videos (though on a single-core processor the conversion will take a
while).
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Old February 11th 19, 09:41 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Lu Wei
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On 2019-2-1 10:34, 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 ?
Try media player classic:

https://mpc-hc.org/


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Old February 15th 19, 07:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Average Person
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:34:34 -0800, 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 ?

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VLC is a bloated piece of crap. Windows Media Player cant play MP4
files.

Download the FREE program called "Media Player Classic". MPC is
awesome. It works flawlessly on my old XP laptop which has a processor
about the same speed as yours. It also works perfectly on my much older
desktop computer (made in 2000), running Windows 98.

You may need to install some additional codecs, otherwise it works
immediately. You can even install it to a flashdrive for portable use.

The file you download will be named something like this:
MPC-HC.1.7.5.x86.exe

(There is probably a newer version, I have not checked in awhile, since
this one works fine).

I dont know if this works on Windows 7, 8 or 10, since I dont have them.
But it works great on XP and Win98. I have used it for many years...

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Old February 15th 19, 01:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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In message , Average Person
writes:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:34:34 -0800, Aguy wrote:

Windows XP Home
Want to play .mp4 videos.

[]
VLC is a bloated piece of crap. Windows Media Player cant play MP4
files.


I disagree. It may be bloated, I don't know, but it's my default (for
video; IrfanView for images, WinAmp for audio [though VLC OK there too,
and Irfan can play most audio too]).

Download the FREE program called "Media Player Classic". MPC is

[]
The file you download will be named something like this:
MPC-HC.1.7.5.x86.exe

[]
I dont know if this works on Windows 7, 8 or 10, since I dont have them.
But it works great on XP and Win98. I have used it for many years...

I have MPC 1.7.10.252, which runs fine on Windows 7-32. I do use it very
occasionally.
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So, Heresy be damned (well, it would be, wouldn't it?).
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Old February 15th 19, 06:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bill in Co[_3_]
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Average Person
writes:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:34:34 -0800, Aguy wrote:

Windows XP Home
Want to play .mp4 videos.

[]
VLC is a bloated piece of crap. Windows Media Player cant play MP4
files.


I disagree. It may be bloated, I don't know, but it's my default (for
video; IrfanView for images, WinAmp for audio [though VLC OK there too,
and Irfan can play most audio too]).

Download the FREE program called "Media Player Classic". MPC is

[]
The file you download will be named something like this:
MPC-HC.1.7.5.x86.exe

[]
I dont know if this works on Windows 7, 8 or 10, since I dont have them.
But it works great on XP and Win98. I have used it for many years...

I have MPC 1.7.10.252, which runs fine on Windows 7-32. I do use it very
occasionally.


They're both good. It's probably best to have both. One advantage of VLC
is it has the codecs built in, IIRC. For MPC, you may need to add something
like the K-Lite Codec Pack to be able to play some videos, like perhaps some
mp4s.


 




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