Yep, ran into some problems with MediaPlayer 8 and The Playa on XP. I was trying to watch Enemy at The Gates DivX, which was using a special AC3 sound codec.<P>Found an old copy of Media player 6.4.x ...

*Hoping this is the right forum*<BR><BR>So yesterday I had my laptop at a friends house. He wanted to watch a video but my laptop couldn't play it w/o some codec updates. He had me install K-Lite ...

In the Playback folder, you will get a setting called Prevent Codec Download. Double-click on it and select the Enabled option. Click the OK button to save the change. After that, Windows Media Player ...

Microsoft published a new support page with details about codec support in the Windows Media Player app. As it turns out, the company is removing AC-3 Dolby Digital support in Windows 11 version 24H2.