I want to play a movie, by Windows Media Player and it stops and comes up with the Don't Send and Send message. Then I tried running it with AVI Movie Player and the same thing happens. HELP !

Download correct one for your system

XP Codecs - K-Lite Codec Pack 4.5.3
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Vista Codec Package 5.1.0 Final
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Install with recommended settings

You can tried to play it with vlc
Or use install FFdshow

http://freecodec.com/download/FFDShow.htm

for the love of peace of mind do NOT install K-lite

instead

Combined Community Codec Pack (http://CCCP-project.net)

^ the only one officially endorse by the developers of matroska




HTH

...
Ann Coulter (http://anncoulter.com) - brave in this new world

endorse = endorsed

Combined Community Codec Pack (http://CCCP-project.net)

^ the only one officially endorse by the developers of matroska


That is objective truth and not opinion. CCCP is the only DS deploy that is capable of unfoobaring DS: again objective truth and not opinion.