x264 playback help

[cdrips]

I've searched on this and read the sticky, so please be gentle. I've installed the newest ffdshow (200508) and am still having trouble with x264 playback. It works on the computer I encoded on, but it fails on my other computer. AVC and all the default settings with AAC sound in a .mp4 file.

I set ffdshow to libavcodec for h264. I put graphedit on my encoding computer, says it's going through nero then to ffdshow. Then when I try graphedit on my other computer, it can't even render the file (no nero on the other computer since I don't want to install extraneous software on it). Won't open in media player or media player classic.

I did a search on this and none seemed to help. Am I missing something completely obvious for playback? Am I right to assume that all I basically need is ffdshow (newest) to decode x264 or do I also need to install something specific. According to the sticky, it seems that ffdshow should be able to handle this by itself.

[virus]

AVC and all the default settings with AAC sound in a .mp4 file.
Sorry for the stupid question, but do you have an MP4 splitter (like Haali's (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/)) installed on your decoding pc?

[bond]

for playing any file in a dshow player you need always two things:
1) the file/container parser/splitter
2) the stream decoder

ffdshow is only a decoder, you also need a .mp4 parser

i would suggest you use the one from haali:
http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/

[cdrips]

Hey guys, thanks for the quick reply. That was exactly what was missing. I did not know about needing a splitter, but now I do. Thanks for helping me so fast.