[fairnooks]

Just wondering, its been 'bout a month now and I've only been using the Divx and Xvid flavors but how has the native support for MPEG4 files in Windows 7 been? I've had the experience that, while the playback quality at the default setting has been tweaked just right for outstanding viewing, Windows Media Player will not play any file larger than 2 gigs (that old barrier yet again) and if I jump around on the quick seek bar, AV sync becomes a problem and nothing beyond restarting the file repairs it.

If I reboot into XP, WMP11 has no problem playing any size Xvid file so far up to 9.67 gigs (an experimental 1920x1080 file), and I can jump around on the instant seek bar like a Mexican hat dancer without a problem, except for about a quarter to one half second delay between seek and play with the 9.67 gig file, which is on a network location, so I think that is pretty acceptable.

So is this experience common or anomalous? I hope this isn't due to built-in DRM in Vista and Seven because if it is common, its probably here to stay.

[Mumbodog]

Install this codec pack (as long as no other pack has been installed yet).

See if playback is better.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Win7codecs_d5959.html

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[fairnooks]

I have Win 7 set up on another system now, all very similar hardware and applications and the video performance is mimicking that of XP so that's good. I'll definitely give that codec pack a try on the other system when I get around to booting back into 7 again.