Some servers don’t have an associated MIME type to support MP4 files. As such, they fail to play MP4 files. To correct this, you’ll need to configure the MP4 MIME type in IIS. This tutorial walks you ...

Want to know how to play a weird video file on your Mac? Don’t worry – there’s probably a simple solution. There are dozens of video file formats, with more being added all the time, and it’s ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

Whether you shot the video or not, sometimes it's just in the wrong file format. When you need to convert a video to a different file format, what’s a quick, easy way to do it? Movavi’s free Online ...

A file extension, or file name extension, is the letters immediately shown after the last period in a file name. For example, the file extension.txt has an extension of .txt. This extension allows the ...

WMP shipped with recent editions of Windows, and it can play anything with the proper DirectShow codec. It’s also a decent librarian. Alas, poor Winamp! We knew it well. One of our favorite audio and ...

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