cant read mpeg-4 ...please HELP !!!!

i am on 10.3.9

That may be part of the problem. Not sure if the following will work for you, but worth a try. Check of the websites mentioned whether the software will work with Panther.

These are the downloads and the settings you need in order to view/hear pretty much everything that the net can throw at you: The setup described below has proved repeatedly successful on both PPC and Intel macs, but nothing in life carries a guarantee!

Assuming you already run OS 10.4.9 or above and have Quicktime 7.2, and are using Safari 2 or 3, download and install ( or re-install even if you already had them) the latest versions, suitable for your flavor of Mac, of:

RealPlayer from http://uk.real.com/player/

Flip4Mac WMV Player from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)

Perian from http://perian.org/

Adobe FlashPlayer from http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash

In Quicktime Preferences, under advanced, UNcheck Enable Flash, and under Mime settings/Miscellananeous only check Quicktime HTML (QHTM).

In Macintosh HD/Library/Quicktime/ delete any files relating to DivX (Perian already has them).

Important: Now repair permissions and restart.

The world should now be your oyster!

You should also have the free VLC Player from http://www.videolan.org/ in your armory, as this plays almost anything that DVD Player might not.

http://www.3ivx.com/download/macos.html
See if it helps.

In English language we "swear" not "sware" but that is beside the point of your question.
Try installing http://perian.org component and see if it works.
You have 3,500 Windows implementation of MPEG-4 files. They do not follow the MPEG-4 industry standards if they don't open correctly in QuickTime Player.

I'm sorry for not reading your OS. You can't install Perian on your machine.

... you mean i need to update to 10 .4 ???
i mean i cant use perion cause i am on 10.3 .

OUI! 🙂

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