.wmv files

[Wiro]

Downloaded 3 movies (all 3 are .wmv files) and I can't seem to play any of 'm for some reason
Only thing windows media player does is 'downloading codecs', getting some error thingy and just play the songs, same goes for Winamp and other player proggies

Anyone got any suggestions?
I've tried various codec packs but none of them seem to make any difference at all

 

[Esoteric]

Only thing I can think of is download yourself the Divx Codec
http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/

If you have done this Im out of ideas.

 

[NetNifty]

Could try uninstalling and reinstalling windows media player, but other than that dunno :/

 

[Urme the Legend]

Try to upgrade the Media Player or something..

.wmv stands for Windows Media Video or something.. and wierd if you can't play them in Windows Media Player

 

[Chronictank]

DivX files can be saves as wmv also, download the latest codec from wight above. I prefer .avi personally but thats jsut me

 

[frogster]

Yup, itll do that every time you dont have the video codecs installed for your download. Best bet is to install the divx codec as mentioned above, as thats a very popular codec.
If not :

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/download.html will tell you exactly what codec you require and just google for it.

 

[gunner440]

er for wmv maybe download the media player codec pack update (i think it was called that?) from the microsoft website

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

don't forget XviD

also a very popular, very good and very free codec
imo, it lets DivX eat dirt


but you gotta have 'em both tbh