Media Player 11 Won't Play ANY File

MCE 2005, SP3, fully-updated Sony VAIO PC

Error message for any type of audio or video file even though the file is
associated with WMP 11:

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

All of the files can be played on other players such as QuickTime or Nero.

Any suggestions?

LovesToDance
Tue Jun 24 15:03:02 PDT 2008

UPDATE from LovesToDance:

I attempted to uninstall WMP 11 which resulted in a rollback to WMP 10 -
with the same results: No file will play, same error message.

"LovesToDance" wrote:

> MCE 2005, SP3, fully-updated Sony VAIO PC
>
> Error message for any type of audio or video file even though the file is
> associated with WMP 11:
>
> 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
>
> All of the files can be played on other players such as QuickTime or Nero.
>
> Any suggestions?

S
Tue Jun 24 17:40:08 PDT 2008

Try:-ffdshow
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

LovesToDance wrote:

> UPDATE from LovesToDance:
>
> I attempted to uninstall WMP 11 which resulted in a rollback to WMP 10 -
> with the same results: No file will play, same error message.
>
> "LovesToDance" wrote:
>
>
>>MCE 2005, SP3, fully-updated Sony VAIO PC
>>
>>Error message for any type of audio or video file even though the file is
>>associated with WMP 11:
>>
>>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
>>
>>All of the files can be played on other players such as QuickTime or Nero.
>>
>>Any suggestions?

Jaime
Wed Jun 25 05:50:29 PDT 2008

If S.Sengupta suggestion doesn't help, you might try posting this on a Media
Player newsgroup. The folks there might have further suggestions since they
specialize in problems with MP.

Do the audio/video files play in Media Center?
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida

"LovesToDance" <LovesToDance@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2E9B0D21-3B16-4584-AAF6-FE8A0E516DF5@microsoft.com...
> UPDATE from LovesToDance:
>
> I attempted to uninstall WMP 11 which resulted in a rollback to WMP 10 -
> with the same results: No file will play, same error message.
>
> "LovesToDance" wrote:
>
>> MCE 2005, SP3, fully-updated Sony VAIO PC
>>
>> Error message for any type of audio or video file even though the file is
>> associated with WMP 11:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> All of the files can be played on other players such as QuickTime or
>> Nero.
>>
>> Any suggestions?