Windows media player 11 does not play .wmv files

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Thanks for your feedback. The video is stored on a physical hard disk. But when I right click on a the same video and play it locally it plays. The video link is embeded into the web app and we are not using HTML 5 video control we are using href to Naviagte to the right page. This used to work earlier and stopped now. We appreciate the additional information that you've provided. This may be the cause of the error message that has appeared on your end.

To do this, here are the steps:. As the next recommendation, make sure that there's no spaces in the file path or in the file name of the video that you're trying to play in Internet Explorer Also, try to put the video or media file that you want to play in a playlist.

Could this error be related to TLS configuration since this works on one site of ours and not on the other from the same machine; So I am assuming that this is not a client machine configuration. The only difference between the 2 sites was that the TLS 1. I get the following error message:. The player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.

After getting this message, the "check for a solution" option in Windows Media Player gets you nothing. They don't work. I've checked the WMV files on other systems. They work. The problem is my system. I've checked Microsoft Tech web site for over 3 hours. No go. I've tried to download and install Windows Media Player 11 again gets an already installed message.

Also the Windows Update claims I am up to date. However, I don't know what the ripple effects of this solution are. Does anyone have a simple solution?? The problem is very likely a corrupt or deleted Codec. This is a common problem when third party media devices or software replace the default codecs. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I am unable to play media files on Windows I tried to play a music file on Windows media player on Windows None of the players would play my file.

The file is from a n Audio CD that I copied onto my hard drive. Over the years I copied thousand of songs from Audio CD's a few from downloads. One message said I was playing a file that I did not have a license to plat.