Windows Media Audio 9 & Vista

[jasonphillipstx]

I have a WMV video file I am trying to play in WMP on Vista. I get an msg that it needs to download Windows Media Audio Codec 9. I choose install but then get an error saying "An audio codec is needed to play this file..."

Can someone tell me how to fix this one?

[zoobie]

there's a few options
d/l the gspot codec utility and look to see what audio codec it's using then install it
d/l the vlc player which comes with it's own codecs and try playing it

[jasonphillipstx]

gspot says 'Status Undetermined' for both audio and video. Filetype is ASF (.WMA/.WMV). When I clicked the MS A/V button, it says DirectShow reported an error of 0xc00d0bbe: (unknown)

where do I go from here?

[Ai Haibara]

GSpot's support for WMV/WMA/ASF is rather limited; it'll report "(Codec) Status Undetermined" even if you have everything necessary to play WMV/WMA files installed on your system, I believe. At least, that's the way it was for me. Use MediaInfo instead.

Odd that WMP would have a problem with WM Audio 9, though. I'd think Vista would either have it already installed, or have no problem downloading and installing it.

You might also look at ffdshow - it supports WM Audio 9, but not WMA9 Pro. You'd probably have to enable it in the codec settings, though.

[jasonphillipstx]

ya..I am stumped on this one...media info says the audio is WMA3

[zoobie]

did you try vlc?
could simply be corrupt