Viewing videos on Vista Ultimate

[scottishlife]

Hi, I have just purchased an NEX 5 camera, whilst on holiday I could download and watch the videos on my laptop which runs windows 7 but when I got home and tried to download onto my desktop which runs Vista Ultimate it cannot find software that will play them.

Would an update to Windows 7 on my desktop solve this or would it be another issue.

Thanks 

[Blencogo · Accepted solution]

Windows Media Player 12 included in Windows 7 has built-in  support for HD video formats - including 3GP, AAC,  AVCHD, MPEG-4, WMV, and WMA. It also supports most AVI, DivX, MOV, and  Xvid files.

Windows Media Player 11 included in Vista needs additional Codecs to play HD Video.  You can download a k-Lite Codec Pack but this can make WMP11 unstable.

If I were you I would download and use VideoLan Player - it is freeware and most of us here use it in preferance to WMP11.  I think you will find this the best solution - rather than change the OS

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/