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Ref: VLC 2.0.3
Ref: XP SP3 Build 120504-1619
Ref: Dell Latitude C840 laptop, 1Gig RAM

I have some DL'ed .mp4 car videos from YouTube that I would like to play.

When I tell VLC to play Any .mp4 file, the player displays the 1st. frame(?) of the vid, then freezes. I thought that VLC could natively play .mp4 vid. files.

Then I read that VLC needs a .mkv add-in to play .mp4. I got the .mkv add-in, but it did not help.

Any ideas?

THANX

MLStrand56

I don't know what that .mkv addon you are talking about, but a default VLC install can play mp4 just fine. MP4 is just a container that holds the actual video/audio/other stuff in it. You said they are YouTube video downloads? Are you sure the video file itself is good? How did you download it?

I'm not sure if the .mp4 vids are good or not. Can't tell until I can play them. I assume the files are good, because I have a bunch of them & None of them will play. If some of the vids. were bad, I'd expect to see some kind of popup saying that the file was corrupted. Not getting that. They just won't play at all, none of them.

Could this be a missing codec problem?

These are definately .mp4 files, not .flv files.

MLStrand56

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com if it's too long.

Also upload a short sample of a problematic file to either http://streams.videolan.org/upload/ or to EmbedUpload.com, so it will upload the file for you to several other hosts, and then post the link to the file here.