Need help with a MPEG-4 file

[imis]

A friend sent me a video file that says it is MPEG-4 format. It doesn't run at all under Windows Media Player or Winamp. Quicktime runs it but the picture is distorted. Roxio Cineplayer will play it for about a minute or so and then it crashes. Any ideas on how to play this or a player that might play it?

 

[lxskllr]

Try VLC

 

[imis]

Awesome, problem solved. Thanks

 

[Antique]

If you like to play it on any software, download the needed codecs for that file type.
I would suggest you to download Combined Community Codec Pack or CCCP.
After you installed it, it will play on almost all media player available.

 

[homercles337]

If you want to learn more about the codecs for a given file, try this:

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/