Windows Media Player Video Problems

[gwilks98]

Anytime I try to play video clips and such, I get an occassional "Unable to download an appropriate decompressor" error. Does anyone know how to fix this or what causes this?

[hapoo]

you need to know what codec was used to make the video and download it.

[spigidygak]

Originally posted by gwilks98
Anytime I try to play video clips and such, I get an occassional "Unable to download an appropriate decompressor" error. Does anyone know how to fix this or what causes this?

What video file types? As hapoo mentioned, ya need the codecs. Sounds like somebody is trying to watch illegitimate movies. . . or pr0n hehe.

[gwilks98]

I'll be the first to admit that I heart porn. But this is not exclusive to porn. I was trying to watch different clips of martial arts samples and such and it would give me that decompressor error. (Usually with avi files)

I'm way out of my league on this one. I know NOTHING about video software and how it works. I only know that it usually occurs with AVI files and that I'm not sure how the file was encoded.

Any ideas on this one?

[billxp]

Sounds like you need the divx codec or the file maybe incomplete.

Try www.divx.com

If it incomplete your can search for an app called divx fix.

Back up the file before you try to fix it just in case an oopps happens.

[spigidygak]

Yep if its avi file types most likely its the divx codec ya need. And I highly doubt that you're the first to admit to porn. . . look in the archives. I don't want to point out names. . . but take a visit into the chat room, hehe.

[Cheesypuff]

Make sure that you download the most recent ver. of Divx, I think that the version that comes with win XP is not the latest ver. Just thought.