Is 3ivx the only option for playing mp4 videos on windows?

[notfred]

I haven't seen anything else that will decode the audio. Does anything else exist?

 

[anxi80]

havent tried it myself...but doesnt nero recode 2 do it?

ripped from cdfreaks.com:

Ahead Software, leaders in digital media technology, announced today that Nero Recode 2(TM), the latest addition to Nero 6(TM), its award-winning digital media software suite, has surpassed the 34-million download mark within nine weeks of its initial release. Nero Recode 2, which includes Nero Digital(TM), the world's fastest MPEG-4 video and audio codec, are part of December's free update of Nero 6.3 and are still available at no cost to Nero 6 retail users across the globe.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Quicktime decodes .mp4 files

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: RaynorWolfcastle
Quicktime decodes .mp4 files

That's true, but you can't use quicktimes codecs outside of the quicktime application. I'm looking for soemthing that will work in media player or any other video palyer I want to use.