I have a HP Pavilion which is a couple of years old. It has been a great PC but windows drives me wild. Why is everything such a hassle when Microsoft is present? My current problem is that i am downloading movies from the net and continue to get the error message: Windows media file can not play this file. the player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file. I have tried to find the codecs that I need but have no idea how to find out or where to get them. i speak to my mates who have MAC and they say I never get these problems. MICROSOFT is the pits... Has anyone got the answers I need? PLEASE...
www.google.com search for VLC It's a video player and it plays all format files. VLC doesn't need a codec for it to read the videos. I use it all the time, I'm just annoyed by the VLC Icon . That orange cone. I use VLC because I got sick of finding which codec works with media player.
Still having problems even with the Combined Community Codec Pack. Windows really is THE PITS of a product.
some files that I download from the net are saying missing codec. This problem only started about a month ago. I have not installed any new program in that time.
