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When displaying the Duration column in a folder window with MP4 videos, it is blank. I am aware that there is no native support for this filetype in Windows XP. This answer is related, but only gives very general advice (I tried installing the program suggested, but you have to open the file to view the statistics). I've also tried installing the Haali media splitter, though I'm no video expert, and I don't want to randomly start installing buggy codec packs either. Is there a way to do what I need?

Footnote: This is not directly relevant to the question at hand, but Media Preview by BabelSoft has been working amazingly to show thumbnails for video files not natively supported on XP (works on later versions too).

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You could try on explorer2

From the website :

xplorer² is a desktop file manager combining the simplicity of windows explorer with the speed and efficiency of traditional dual pane orthodox file managers, helping you be productive with your documents, pictures, music, source code and other files.

I downloaded for my xp and managed to get the mp4 files by adding length column through it,

Working proof :

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In the registry, go to

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
.mp4
ShellEx

Create a Key in there named {BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1} with a date value of {c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}

So then you have : HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT .mp4 ShellEx {BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}

and inside here ^^^^^^^^^ you have a new string value that looks like:

(Default) Reg_SZ {c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}

Originally found here

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