Windows Media Player Error

The following will help you:-

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]


Patrick wrote:
> I just got a new Dell with Vista, and it works great, but everytime I
> download a movie and try to play it, I get the following error message;
>
>
> " Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support
> the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the
> file".
>
> I bought this pc with this os mainly for movies, is there a way I can remedy
> this and be able to download and watch movies?
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:08:31 +0530, "S.Sengupta" <ssengupta_.DeleteThis@msn.com.invalid>
wrote:

>The following will help you:-
>
>http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm

The preferred solution is to choose exactly the one & only decoder that you
require for a particular movie file type e.G. Dix. It can be more convenient to
choose a CODEC pack that promises to support almost every imaginable video type
but it can cause problems with an excess of conflicting decoders.

I wouldn't recommend the Kite CODEC pack as not only does it pirate copyrighted
software but provides multiple decoders for the same file types which can cause
big problems.

If you must choose a CODEC pack then a preferable choice is offshoot-tryouts
which instead of being a random collection of every imaginable decoder packaged
together is a set of decoders developed as an open source project.
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
--

Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:15:24 +0200, Nigel Barker <nigel.RemoveThis@nigelbarker.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:08:31 +0530, "S.Sengupta" <ssengupta_.RemoveThis@msn.com.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>The following will help you:-
>>
>>http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm
>
>The preferred solution is to choose exactly the one & only decoder that you
>require for a particular movie file type e.G. Dix. It can be more convenient to
>choose a CODEC pack that promises to support almost every imaginable video type
>but it can cause problems with an excess of conflicting decoders.
>
>I wouldn't recommend the Kite CODEC pack as not only does it pirate copyrighted
>software but provides multiple decoders for the same file types which can cause
>big problems.
>
>If you must choose a CODEC pack then a preferable choice is offshoot-tryouts
>which instead of being a random collection of every imaginable decoder packaged
>together is a set of decoders developed as an open source project.
>http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/

Looks like my spell checker corrected ffdshow to offshoot:-) The paragraph
should read:-

If you must choose a CODEC pack then a preferable choice is ffdshow-tryouts
which instead of being a random collection of every imaginable decoder packaged
together is a set of decoders developed as an open source project.
http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/
--

Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP
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Patrick...I feel your pain....my Media Player as well as Media Center has not
been able to play a single DVD or MPEG file since the day I bought it a year
ago. This is after hours of frustrating calls to Microsoft, who told me to
call HP...more hours of calls to India...and supposedly "knowledgable"
people....and downloading and trying out just about every codec out
there...including the supposely "built in" one in Vista. It's funny how VLC
and Cyberlink seem to be able to work just fine, but Media Center gives
errors like this:

"Windows Media Center cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with
digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try
installing an updated driver for your video card."

And then to make matters worse...my Media Center stopped working completely
the day I installed the June 2008 Cumulitive Update. Of course it never
worked anyway, so I don't miss it. But it would be nice if it did.

AC



"Patrick" wrote:

> I just got a new Dell with Vista, and it works great, but everytime I
> download a movie and try to play it, I get the following error message;
>
>
> " Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support
> the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the
> file".
>
> I bought this pc with this os mainly for movies, is there a way I can remedy
> this and be able to download and watch movies?
 >> Stay informed about: Windows Media Player Error