/Jack B/ said:

> Sometimes I find Vista extremely infuriating and this is one of those times.
> I've got a golf training CD that came with a book, and according to the book
> there are some videos to look at on the cd. They have .MP4 extensions.
> When I double click one, I'm told that Windows doesn't know what program to
> use to open it, so I select Windows Media Center from a list. Then I come
> to the media center, but I can't find the CD or the files in the media
> center. I can find tons of icons changing size and flashing as I pass the
> cursor over them, and it's all very pretty and sounds good, I'm sure, but I
> can't do what I want, which is just to take a look at one of the tracks on
> the CD!!
>
> So now, instead of seeing a quick clip and moving on to other tasks this
> afternoon, I am beating my head against the wall, wondering why I paid $160
> for this insanely screwed up OS.
>
> So, please excuse the ranting, and can anyone tell me what I need to do to
> play these video clips?

This may help, though it refers to older Media Players...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...cdownload.aspx

Alternatively, try Media Player Classic, an open source player available
for free. It plays most files types...
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ckage_id=84358