topic Re: Wndows media player query in Camcorders

Wndows media player query

Vintner — Mon, 28 May 2012 16:48:26 GMT

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.

Re: Wndows media player query

blaireau_photo — Mon, 28 May 2012 20:02:50 GMT

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

Re: Wndows media player query

mithcd — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:45:17 GMT

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