
These built-in video players/media players only support a limited range of formats, meaning that half of the time you can’t even open the files you need. Really, I would just stick with WMV if I could, because I'm getting some really good quality and compression from it, but I can't control the playback speed, or "Set Position" to jump to a different part of the video, so I'm stuck with either uncompressed AVIs that are like 50MB/s or WMVs that cannot be controlled.Since most computers come installed with a video player, why would anyone hassle with downloading a third-party software? Simple. They all play if I run them in "Movies and TV" or "Windows Media Player" so I don't think it's an issue with my codecs not being installed. I've used VirtualDub, Adobe Media Encoder, and several others with different mp4 codecs like x264. You could try another codec when rendering the video and see if that maybe does the trick in the meantime for mp4. I can’t remember which ones didn’t though. Some codecs used for rendering didn’t always work for me in Fusion, but eventually I used Adobe Premiere and their stock codecs worked. Out of curiosity, what are you using to render your mp4 videos? The mp4 format itself is a wrapper and the renderer is where the codecs come in to play.

Is there any known workaround to this problem? Is the Media Foundation addition included in a beta release, or do I need to wait for the next official patch? I assume I will have to change to Dx11 mode in order for this to function?ĮDIT: Also, WMV loads consistently, and I won't have to worry about end users needing to install codecs, but it won't allow me to change the playback speed. Also, I am running in DirectX 9 mode, which I think provides the best compatibility at this point.

I've got the right codecs installed because I can play the MP4 videos directly from file explorer. Media Foundation is a more modern API and may support more codecs than Direct Show. Note: in the next update patch, there will be a new "Use Media Foundation with DirectX 11" option in the Active Direct Show object (I see you use the 2.5+ DLC, so maybe your app is in DirectX 11 mode?). Make sure DirectShow codecs are installed on your machine. MP4 files work fine here, I've just tried a couple of MP4 files without any problem.
