H264 Codec Help

rocky741 · **Posted:** Sun May 21, 2006 6:51 pm

I am trying to find the H264 codec to play some clips and I have not been successful thus far. I have the lastest Quicktime but it won't play the clip even though it should have that codec. Any help is appreciated. :Thumb

yodaking · **Posted:** Sun May 21, 2006 7:30 pm

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/x26 ... _Codec.htm

rocky741 · **Posted:** Sun May 21, 2006 7:38 pm

yodaking wrote:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/x264_Video_Codec.htm

I did find that same page for the codec but for some reason it did not work. Is there a specific folder that it should be in? :hum

DamianVonBarone · **Joined:** Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:55 am **Posts:** 1781

What dose the Quicktime error message say? - Is there a number following the message?
A week ago I downloaded a video file that would not open - It said it was a H264 codec but Quicktime couldent play it - FFtoMpegX opened it - But thats a mac program.

rocky741 · **Posted:** Sun May 21, 2006 9:38 pm

damianbaroni wrote:

What dose the Quicktime error message say? - Is there a number following the message?
A week ago I downloaded a video file that would not open - It said it was a H264 codec but Quicktime couldent play it - FFtoMpegX opened it - But thats a mac program.

Windows Media tells me that I need the codec. The message I get from Quicktime is

Quote:

Error -50: an unkown error occurred

This is a one clip of many I have downloaded but can't get to work because of the codec....

http://www.ultrashare.de/f/8406/Teodora_Rutigliano_18.5.06_ComixVideo.avi

DamianVonBarone · **Joined:** Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:55 am **Posts:** 1781

Its a h264, yuv420p, 768x576 - And my Quicktime did not open it.
So my minions at the lab converted it to a super cool codec...

http://rapidshare.de/files/21067341/Teo ... avi.ff.avi

DivX 6.0, 768 x 576, Millions
MPEG Layer 3, Stereo, 48.000 kHz

I dont know why we cant open it - And I dont know why people choose oddball codecs - H264 takes forever to encode at 2 passes - And the results are so so at best. That why I dont use it - All the videos at ITUNES are H264 - Anyway - Good talk, good talk.

BPM · **Joined:** Sat Aug 07, 2004 7:17 pm **Posts:** 5700

Rocky, I played the clip fine with VLC Media Player.

Couldn't play it with anything else though.

rocky741 · **Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 7:12 pm

Thanks for the help guys! I think I'll download the VLC Player.

malone42 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 07, 2004 2:39 am **Posts:** 6234

rocky741 wrote:

Thanks for the help guys! I think I'll download the VLC Player.

I have had good luck with VLC when nothing else would work.

rocky741 · **Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 8:45 pm

malone42 wrote:

rocky741 wrote:

Thanks for the help guys! I think I'll download the VLC Player.

I have had good luck with VLC when nothing else would work.

Until this codec crap, everything was able to play in Windows Media or Divx.

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