You will have to copy and paste the video URL from your browser to the VLC player (menu file->open network). It will play both the MP4 and Windows Media Player files. We recommend 's VLC - Media Player, a free cross-platform media player that supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs. In general we sugguest Apple Quicktime for playing MP4 files, however there are a variety of MP4 players available.
This hub relies on two formats of video files, MP4 (MPEG-4) mostly used for podcasts but also can be viewed directly on your computer, and Windows Media Player which is used by older lectures and seminars.