Jason Earll
September 7th 03, 04:46 AM
I would go and uninstall your media player and then go and
download media player 9 first install it and reboot, then
go and download the codecs, install, and reboot this
should solve your problem, if not then try reinstalling
windows again.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hey all. I try to play certain media files (avis and
>mpegs for example) with Player 9 (all updated and even
>downloaded the codec packs off the site), but apparently
>these files require different codecs.
>
>Every time the player tries to download a new codec, it
>tries to connect to the "codec server" but it always
>comes back with an "Error downloading codec" message.
>
>Usually it then begins to play the soundtrack of said
>file, but not the video, it just starts playing a
>visualization!
>
>Any fix for this? I upgraded to Windows XP (clean
>install and everything), so I wonder if that's the
>problem. I previously had Windows ME and Media Player 8,
>and all my movie files ran fine then! Argh.
>.
>
download media player 9 first install it and reboot, then
go and download the codecs, install, and reboot this
should solve your problem, if not then try reinstalling
windows again.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hey all. I try to play certain media files (avis and
>mpegs for example) with Player 9 (all updated and even
>downloaded the codec packs off the site), but apparently
>these files require different codecs.
>
>Every time the player tries to download a new codec, it
>tries to connect to the "codec server" but it always
>comes back with an "Error downloading codec" message.
>
>Usually it then begins to play the soundtrack of said
>file, but not the video, it just starts playing a
>visualization!
>
>Any fix for this? I upgraded to Windows XP (clean
>install and everything), so I wonder if that's the
>problem. I previously had Windows ME and Media Player 8,
>and all my movie files ran fine then! Argh.
>.
>