M4V PlayBack Troubles

[jagiger]

Hi, I'm new to this video stuff, but I tried following a previous post to
playback a M4V file. The suggestion from a previous post was to use:
> MediaPlayer Classic
> QuickTime Alternative codec
> DiVX codec
> ffdshow
> XviD

I couldn't get this to work right, so I tried the iTunes video facilities and that worked but the quality was choppy. Any thoughts?

Error messages from MPC:

C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Movies\Death to the Tinman.m4v::Output
QuickTime Movie Parser::audio 0

Media Type 0:
--------------------------
Audio: 0x7264 44100Hz stereo 1411Kbps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Audio {73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {00007264-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_WaveFormatEx {05589F81-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 4
cbFormat: 18

WAVEFORMATEX:
wFormatTag: 0x7264
nChannels: 2
nSamplesPerSec: 44100
nAvgBytesPerSec: 176400
nBlockAlign: 4
wBitsPerSample: 16
cbSize: 0 (extra bytes)

pbFormat:
0000: 64 72 02 00 44 ac 00 00 10 b1 02 00 04 00 10 00 dr..D¬...±......
0010: 00 00 ..

Thanks for any help,
-Jim

[Baldrick]

Try VLC Media player.

If you want to play in mpc or windows media player try install Haali Media Splitter for mp4/m4v video and enable h.264/avc in ffdshow under video codecs also.

[Soopafresh]

Go into Media Player Classic --->View-->Options-->External Filters-->Add Filter-->CoreAVC Video Decoder-->Prefer