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Windows Forum / Windows Media / Player / March 2008Automatically downloading codecs
There's a place in WMP 11 that lets you specify that WMP should download codecs automatically. So I'm told. But I can't find it. Can anyone help? Thanks. Start WMP11 > Tools > Options > Player tab > Automatic Updates - select option. > There's a place in WMP 11 that lets you specify that WMP should download > codecs automatically. So I'm told. But I can't find it. Can anyone help? > Thanks. Tah > Start WMP11 > Tools > Options > Player tab > Automatic Updates - select > option. > >> There's a place in WMP 11 that lets you specify that WMP should download >> codecs automatically. So I'm told. But I can't find it. Can anyone help? >> Thanks. Note that will only download a limited subset of codecs created by MS - so for example it won't offer the pretty common DivX or H264 codecs That's most likely from a licensing and support viewpoint rather than any malicious intent - if MS offered a specific 3rd party codec, it could be seen as anti-competitive and require them to offer support for that codec too. WMP has a plugin architecture which allows use of DirectShow or media foundation based codecs, most commonly you'd search the web for "(codec name) + Directshow" to get one which works in WMP. HTH Cheers - Neil >Tah > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>> codecs automatically. So I'm told. But I can't find it. Can anyone help? >>> Thanks. ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs |
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