Windows Media Player Reject (screen, icon, work, software)

[tillman7]

Why do I get the reject (below) when I try using the Windows Media Player. The Windows Media Player had played the files in the past. How can I correct this problem?

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.

[MediocreButArrogant]

Codecs are the software components that encode and decode audio and video. These are separate from Windows Media Player, so if you did not have a codec available for say, H.264 video, you couldn't play the video, even though WMP was able to play the file on another system (because it did have the codec). You should determine which codec is required to play the video (use Mediainfo or G-Spot or similar utility), and find out if you have a codec to play that type of stream.

You could also have this problem if you did not have the "splitter" for a particular container type. For instance, to play MKV files with Windows Media Player, you need an MKV splitter to split the file into elementary audio and video streams, and you also need the codecs to decode those elementary streams.

Is the file available online? If not, you'll have to post the info about the file using one of the two utilities mentioned before.

[tillman7]

Originally Posted by tillman7

Why do I get the reject (below) when I try using the Windows Media Player. The Windows Media Player had played the files in the past. How can I correct this problem?

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.

Found the answer:

Open the Windows Media Player and follow the steps below, this should correct the problem:

1. Go to the top left hand corner of the screen, you will see Window Media Player

2. Right-click on the Window Media Player icon

3. Go to Tools, then Options

4. Click on File Types, check each box, then click on Apply, then Ok. This should correct the problem.

[MediocreButArrogant]

Was there another part of the message that said something like "Media Player may be able to play this file. Would you like to try?" or something like that?

[sean98125]

The best solution is to go to VLC media player - Open Source Multimedia Framework and Player and get the free VLC player. I've never had run across a file it couldn't play.

WMP kind of sucks.