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codec error messages similar to the ones given below, may be displayed on your screen, or you may experience a problem in which the audio plays and video files do not play. Windows Media http://www.windowshelp.net/windows-media-player-11-help/codec-error-and-problems-while-playing-videos.aspx Player cannot play, burn, rip, or sync the file because a required audio codec is https://forums.techguy.org/threads/solved-windows-media-player-error-downloading-codec.198333/ not installed on your computer. A codec is required to play this file. To determine if this codec is available to download from the Web, click Web Help. Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the required video codec is not installed on your computer. Invalid File Format. The main cause of this error is a missing codec. media player If a required codec is not installed on your system, you will be unable to play a file that needs to use it and error message will be displayed on the screen. To resolve these errors, and to ensure that such problems do not occur in future, it is recommended that you configure your Media Player 11 to automatically download codecs to your system. You can do this by performing the steps listed below: windows media player In the Windows Media Player window, open the Tools menu and then select Options. Tip : If the toolbar with Tools menu is not visible, right-click at the top of the Window, and then point to Tools. On the Player tab, select the Download codecs automatically check box, and then select OK. Advanced Troubleshooting You need to proceed with advanced troubleshooting only if you are unable to resolve the error by enabling automatic codec updates. The steps listed below are a bit complex and you must perform them only if you are comfortable with them. Otherwise, it is recommended that you seek the help of a more experienced computer user or a technician. Step 1: Check if the codec required to play your file is installed on your computer. Right-click on the file you are trying to play in the Now Playing area and select Properties. On the File tab of the properties box that opens, note down the name of the codec given for Audio codec and Video codec. Move on the Step 2, if you find the following information mentioned here. Audio codec: No audio codec is specified. Video codec: No video codec is specified. If the information on the File tab is fine, exit the properties box, open the Help menu, and then select the About Wind
we highly recommend that you visit our Guide for New Members. (Solved) Windows Media Player: Error Downloading Codec Discussion in 'Multimedia' started by spdavid, Jan 26, 2004. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Advertisement spdavid Thread Starter Joined: Jun 4, 2001 Messages: 92 I am getting this error downloading codec messages when watching my video clips and all I can do is hear the audio. spdavid, Jan 26, 2004 #1 Sponsor firstc520 Joined: Jan 26, 2004 Messages: 156 what kind of vid file are you trying to watch? what happends when you turn your video setting down one knotch? to do this, go into WMP and selection options, then the performance tab. uncheck detect my internet connection and mannaully select your connection from the list. For some reason when it trys to detect it itself, it over compensates making so you can just hear audio and no video. Let us know. firstc520, Jan 26, 2004 #2 spdavid Thread Starter Joined: Jun 4, 2001 Messages: 92 One type just says video clip and most of them are WMA. And I manually choose my connectiona and same thing: error downloading codec spdavid, Jan 26, 2004 #3 firstc520 Joined: Jan 26, 2004 Messages: 156 i wonder if it is a mpeg2 format......dvd sometimes wmp will not play them! What WMP version u using? firstc520, Jan 26, 2004 #4 TheJoost Joined: Sep 18, 2003 Messages: 110 You may have come across a video requiring the mpeg-4 DivX codec. It seems to be coming more popular in the last few weeks, so if you don't have it yet you probably will soon. I grabbed it a few weeks ago and can now hear AND see the files. www.divx-digest.com/software/opendivx.html Hopefully this is what you're after. Ciao for now, Joost TheJoost, Jan 27, 2004 #5 whosurpaddy Joined: Dec 16, 2003 Messages: 8 do a google for a prog called g-spot. it analyses files to tell you what codecs they need. whosurpaddy, Jan 27, 2004 #6 RSM123 Joined: Aug 1, 2002 Messages: 5,531 http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ RSM123, Jan 27, 2004 #7 spdavid Thread Starter Joined: Jun 4, 2001 Messages: 92 Um the Joost that codec helped but the video is now all messed up like watching it its all screwy. its