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Wndows media player query

Topic started on May 28, 2012 6:48 PM , last reply on May 29, 2012 9:45 PM

in Cameras and Photo Frames Handycam

Vintner

2 posts since
May 28, 2012

Since recently upgrading from Picture motion Browser to Play Memories Home windows media player will not play any clips form my sony Handycam.

Error message as follows:

"Windows media cannot play the file. The player may not support the file type or a required might not be installed on your computer."

Even old clips will not now play.

Anyone suggestions please.

blaireau_photo
1,269 posts since
Jun 15, 2011

Written on May 28, 2012 10:02 PM

Hello Vintner - Welcome to the Sony Forums

I am unsure about why Windows Media Player would be doing this - however you may find that it is generally less frustrating to use one of the popular freeware media players in the future and my personal favourite is VLC media player which can be downloaded from here:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

I use this all the time as it has a habit of playing pretty much anything that I throw at it (as opposed to Windows Media Player, that I usually end up just throwing things at )

Thanks

Simon
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mithcd
68 posts since
May 26, 2012

Written on May 29, 2012 9:45 PM

Hi Vint. Trust me, it works. It's like a all around media player which supports almost 95% video files. Good luck.
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