Videos that open in Windows Media Player but not in VideoComponent

[daniel]

There is a good answer here:

Unsupported stream and h264

Hi Daniel, thanks for your in depth answer! The thing is: Windows Media Player can playback the files! So the codec is actually installed! So the problem must be somewhere else. I will try to sum up what we’ve found out: We know that JUCE wraps OS capabilities in order to play back video files I think Windows provides to approaches for media playback: the first is Direct Show (older/outdated) and the second is “Windows Media Foundation” (current). Unfortunatly JUCE uses Direct Show. Windows…

TL;DR: WMP uses a more modern framework “Windows Media Foundation”, but JUCE uses an old “Direct Show” widget.
It is not known if and when JUCE updates to Media Foundation.

There is a feature request that @t0m linked, but it is not specified, if that would encompass video as well, since it says AudioFormatReader:

AudioFormatReader - AAC - MP4 Reader For Windows

I understand there are licensing issues with the AAC encoder, however the lack of native Windows support for reading AAC/MP4 files is a significant limitation. This has been at the TOP of my personal JUCE ‘Wish List’ for quite some time