Interesting! I've heard of K-light; I also hear that one needs to be careful as to how to install it as it might carry with it some stuff that one wouldn't want! Tom Kaufman
-----Original Message----- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Byron Stephens Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 9:23 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Question About Winamp And MP4 Files You may need to get the k-light codec pack. I'd google that and it's right there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Kaufman" <tomca...@comcast.net> To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 6:10 PM Subject: RE: Question About Winamp And MP4 Files > Hello J M: Yes...I feel the same way about Winamp as you; I, too, have > seen > Winamp play videos, but am wondering if those videos were originally WMP > files (Winamp _will_ play those! Anyhow I've not been able to get Winamp > to > play this particular MP4 video (it'll only give me audio) but yes; VLC > does > a good job; I just don't know the keystrokes to make it do various things! > Tom Kaufman > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of JM > Casey > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 6:12 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Question About Winamp And MP4 Files > > Hey Tom. > > Let me just say that I love winamp and have used it for almost fifteen > years > > now, with no sign of stopping... > But only for audio. > > I have never quite been able to figure out why winamp seems to play some > videos and not others. There are some codec issues and searching the > internet for certain codecs (depending on the type of encoding...which you > can't always tell from the extension, you have to look at the video info) > has increased the number of videos winamp will play just fine, but there > are > > some files I've just never been able to get to play. Sometimes there's no > video, sometimes neither video or audio. > > VLC on the other hand will play every video I've ever encountered without > a > hitch or without any hunting around on the net for obscure codec packs. I > love it for that reason and if I ever have people over and we want to > watch > videos/movies, VLC works every time. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Kaufman" <tomca...@comcast.net> > To: <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 5:28 PM > Subject: Question About Winamp And MP4 Files > > >> Hello list: Am wondering if there's a way to get Winamp to play the >> video >> of an MP4 file? I got a video the other night; if I just click it as is, >> it >> comes up in Winamp; only thing is that it plays only the audio! I can >> see >> the video if I have it play in something like VLC (and that's fine) but >> was >> just wondering if I could make Winamp play the video as well and if so, >> how >> is it done? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tom Kaufman >> > > > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
