Re: I get the error massage COOD1059 (MEDIA PLAYER CANNOT PLAY THE FIL

From: Chris Lanier [MVP] (cal2002a_at_hotmail.NOSPAM.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:48:19 -0500

I'm not going to read this whole thing, because it would seem your keyboard
is broken (At least the caps lock key anyway) -
http://msmvps.com/chrisl/archive/2004/07/04/9546.aspx 

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"RonRon" <RonRon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:0ACFA458-8ED5-4691-B89E-42DDAB7E5D78@microsoft.com...
> WHEN I TRY TO PLAY A MOVIE ON MY PLAYER I GET THE ERROE MASSAGE WINDOWS 
> MEDIA
> PLAYER CANNOT PLAY THE FILE. THE PLAYER DOES NOT SUPPORT THE FORMAT YOU 
> ARE
> TRYING TO PLAY.
>
> I AM USING WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER VERSION 9.0, MY OPERATING SYSTEM IS 
> WINDOWS
> 98 SE, I GOT THIS ERROR MASSAGE WHEN I WAS TRAYING TO VIEW A MOVIE THAT 
> WAS
> NOT COMPLETY DOWNLOADED.  GSPOT SAYS THE FILE TYPE IS: ASF(.WMA/.WMV).
>
> THE ITEM DETALES ARE: TYPE VCD WRAPPER, ATTRIBUTES- ARCHIVE.DAT FILE.
> THE SIZE: 47.7MB WITH 50,102,272 BYTES USED.
>
> CAN SOMEONE HELP ME, IS THERE SOME TYPE OF CODAC I NEED TO PLAY THIS TYPE 
> OF
> FILE. I DO HAVE MANY CODECS INSTALLED ON MY COMPUTER. LIKE DIVX, KAZZA 
> CODEC
> PACK, MPEG-3,4 CODEC, AND SOME MORE.
>
> THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP ANYONE CAN GIVE ME.
> -- 
> RonRon

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