MPEG-4 Player?

[John Corliss]

Here's the deal. I like to occasionally watch a movie at:

http://www.archive.org/details/feature_films

and when I click on the 256kb MPEG4 (broadband) feed link for the movie,
it opens in Quicktime Altermative's tiny window. Apple intentionally
makes that window small so that you'll buy their Pro version of
Quicktime which will play such streaming media full screen.

If I configure Firefox to have the plugin for MPEG4 disabled and then
open such a file in MPC, it gets downloaded before playing rather than
streamed. That works in that it's full screen, but I would like to take
it easy on my hard drive since (IMO and IME) playing a lot of movies
from them wears them out prematurely.

Not likely, but I thought I'd ask anyway: Anybody know of something
other than Quicktime or Quicktime Alternative that will stream MPEG4 files?

TIA

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[Fran]

MPEG4 is not Quicktime format. Shouldn't Windows media player be able to
stream it?