[HLUG] Videos - unable to view.

[Mark Broadbent]

Julian Robbins wrote:

> Noel McG wrote:
>
>> Hello Dave,
>>
>> This is the first file,    go-open-episode-01.mp4
>>  
>>
> Firstly, mp4 is the successor to mp3 by the look of it.

mp3 is an audio format not a video format (its offical title is MPEG1 
Layer 3 audio) whereas, mp4 is MPEG-4 as identified below (which is 
audio and video).

Thanks
Mark

> MPEG-4 was defined by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), the 
> working group within the International Organization for 
> Standardization (ISO) that specified the widely adopted, Emmy 
> Award-winning standards known as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. Hundreds of 
> researchers around the world contributed to MPEG-4, which was 
> finalized in 1998 and became an international standard in 2000.
>
> Mplayer is one of the best Linux video/audio players and does claim to 
> support .mp04 ie
>