Windows Media Player 11 and MP4 files...

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For some reason I cannot ascertain, my WMP11 will play MP4 files quite happily, yet refuses to add them to my library. I'd quite like them in my library, so that I can stream them to the PS3 (which also plays them quite happily), but can't for the life of me see how to do it.

Any ideas?
 
Renamed some to .avi and some to .wmv. WMP11 still plays them, but does not add them to the Library.
 
I don't have WMP 11 here (still running 9 :odd: ) so I'm going off of memory. Do you have the limit set too high for the ignore files smaller than ___ in the options? I think the default is for 100kb for audio and 500kb for video files.

I also guessing that you have them in a shared/watched folder?
 
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I don't have WMP 11 here (still running 9 :odd: ) so I'm going off of memory. Do you have the limit set too high for the ignore files smaller than ___ in the options? I think the default is for 100kb for audio and 500kb for video files.

I also guessing that you have them in a shared/watched folder?
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I can't find the filesize ignore option, but the files are running into 10s of Mb.

The files are all in Shared/Video/Clips - along with a bunch of other files which are found, added and shared.
 
Searching on Google I've found a lot of people asking about this but no good answer for it. I think you should try some streaming software other than WMP, like SimpleCenter.
 
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I can't find the filesize ignore option, but the files are running into 10s of Mb.
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Again from memory, in the dropdown arrow under Library, go to options. It's on one of the tabs on the bottom right-hand side. Funny I can remember that, but not which specific tab. :P If you have other files in the Library showing up, I'm guessing this isn't the problem. Edit: looks like it might not be in options. It is, however, on the bottom, right-hand side!
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The files are all in Shared/Video/Clips - along with a bunch of other files which are found, added and shared.
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Figured, but it was worth a shot. Sometimes the simple things are the problem...
 
Oh well. I might have to find an MP4-avi convertor then. Bizarre it'll read them but not add them to the library...
 

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