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Mike

There is a site I would like to watch. It's a webcam, but WMP could not
download the codec en retutned an error. There is only sound. The file is a
streaming media, ASX. Is there a way tot get the right codec for this
format?

Thank you for your time.
 
Hi Mike,

These are the most popular codes that most users seem to be missing (as they
are not included with Windows):

Divx: http://www.divx.com/divx/
Xvid: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/xvid.html

In WMP8, you need to run a fairly complicated procedure to detect the name
of the missing codec, in WMP9 the error message will tell you which one.
Just try installing both of them first.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
Thank you Rick,

The only problem is that WMP returns no error message anymore, when I click
on the webcam link. I cannot remember the error code which I got the first
time. I will install the codecs first and hope that one of them works. I
already installed FDD show, someone said it will play anything, but it did
not work for the ASX format.

--
Mike.

| Hi Mike,
|
| These are the most popular codes that most users seem to be missing (as
they
| are not included with Windows):
|
| Divx: http://www.divx.com/divx/
| Xvid: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/xvid.html
|
| In WMP8, you need to run a fairly complicated procedure to detect the name
| of the missing codec, in WMP9 the error message will tell you which one.
| Just try installing both of them first.
|
| --
| Best of Luck,
|
| Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
| Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
|
| Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
|
|
|
| | > There is a site I would like to watch. It's a webcam, but WMP could not
| > download the codec en retutned an error. There is only sound. The file
is
| a
| > streaming media, ASX. Is there a way tot get the right codec for this
| > format?
| >
| > Thank you for your time.
| > --
| > Mike.
| >
| >
|
|
 
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