Guide: Free Download MP4 Codec for Snow Leopard to play MP4 files

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November 24, 2009

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"After I have installed Snow Leopard and start to play my MP4 video files on it. However, it doesn’t play, and a message comes up saying I need the required video codec, but it doesn’t tell me which one. Any suggestion about MP4 Codec for Snow Leopard to play MP4 files?"

I believe this question is very common, even if you haven’t install Snow Leopard, you can also use those MP4 Codec for Windows Media Player, Windows 7 and other applications. This article provides you with good MP4 Codecs to play MP4 files on Snow Leopard.

1. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack includes codecs for the most popular compressions like Divx and Xvid as well as some of the less popular but still necesary codecs. Downloding K-Lite codec pack on your Snow Leopard, you can play all the popular audio and video formats and even some rare formats.

2. FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder

FFDShow MPEG-4 Vdieo Decoder is a great DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX movies, picture postprocessing. This video decoder not only can help you decode MP4 codec on Snow Leopard, it can also play Divx file on iPod Classic 3.

3. 3ivx MPEG-4

3ivx MPEG-4 is available for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux. 3ivx is an MPEG-4 toolkit that supports MPEG-4 Video, MPEG-4 Audio and the MP4 file format. You can download those kind video codecs to play on Windows Media Player 11.

4. XP Codec Pack

XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec pack which helps you to play all major audio and video formats. You can use it to play Xvid codec for QuickTime for Windows 7.

5. MP4 Splitter

In order to play MP4 files, you must have MP4 Splitter installed. Not to be confused with MPEG-4 Video, the MP4 Bitstream format is a wrapper format (similar to AVI/OGM/Matroska).

Other MP4 Codecs

Besides the codecs mentioned above, those codecs also can help you encode and decode MP4 files.

More information about Codecs

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