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Windows Media Format Runtime. This package installs all the codecs and runtimes that are required for playing the various Windows Media formats, such as. wmv and.

This package can be used as an alternative to automatically downloading Windows Media Codecs, or to correct problems experienced with previously-downloaded codecs.

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WMP 12 will play. wmv files, BUT, some of the. wmv files may have been created with a. wmv process that is not being recognized properly A unusual bit rate for instance.

The primary reason for this seems to be that WMP 12 is missing some of it s Codecs

WMP has previously been supplied with some of it s codecs by Media Center, and since Media Center is no longer part of Win 8 8.1 by default, it got short changed a bit

If you are running Win 8 8.1 Pro, you can activate Media Center for 9.99 otherwise it might be 70 to 100 for the upgrade package to the Pro version and a Media Center activation

There are 3rd party codec packs available that might solve the problem, but I ve never had much luck with them, although other people claim to be successful

About the only other option would be a 3rd party player CyberLink, Nero, or similar..

There are a number of free players as well.. Media Player Classic and VLC are two of the ones I see mentioned a lot, but there are more

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so far I have check on windows to find that there are WMV decoders etc etc when my PC is installed with Windows Media Center. The safe line is to set the player preference to play wmv format using windows media option/settings.

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