{"id":18,"date":"2008-01-18T18:24:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/archives\/18"},"modified":"2008-05-03T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T09:56:06","slug":"cannot-play-video-one-or-more-codecs-required-to-play-to-open-this-content-could-not-be-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/archives\/18","title":{"rendered":"Cannot Play Video, One or more codecs required to play to open this content could not be found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Windows Vista Media center gives you a &#8220;Cannot Play Video, One or more codecs required to play to open this content could not be found&#8221;.<br \/>\nAre you running the 64bit version of mediacenter? Follow these steps to get it working:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1)<\/strong> Download and install the approperiate decoder, my favorite is ffdshow. <strong>You&#8217;ll need the 64bit version<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ffdshow.faireal.net\/mirror\/ffdshow\/ffdshow64-rev2546.exe\">http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/project\/showfiles.php?group_id=173941&amp;package_id=229162&amp;release_id=559173<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>2)<\/strong> Change Media center so it uses the 64bit version of\u00a0media player instead of the 32bit one<br \/>\n&#8211; Open\u00a0the registry using regedit<br \/>\n&#8211; Navigate to <em>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\<br \/>\nCurrentVersion\\AppPaths\\wmplayer.exe<br \/>\n&#8211; <\/em>Remove the &#8216;x86&#8217;\u00a0items and make sure\u00a0afterwards it looks like this:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>(Default) &#8211; &#8220;%ProgramFiles%\\Windows Media Player\\wmplayer.exe&#8221;<br \/>\nPath &#8211; %ProgramFiles%\\Windows Media Player <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> Close regedit<br \/>\n<strong>4)<\/strong> Open a command\u00a0prompt and type this: <em>%windir%\\system32\\unregmp2.exe \/SwapTo:64<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>5) <\/strong>Reboot the media center box<br \/>\n<strong>6) <\/strong>Leave a reply if it worked \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now your good to go, Media Center will play your Divx and Xvid!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: Somehow it doesn\u00b4t work at everyones Mediacenter, please have a look at the comment by FINN, it might help you!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Windows Vista Media center gives you a &#8220;Cannot Play Video, One or more codecs required to play to open this content could not be found&#8221;. Are you running the 64bit version of mediacenter? Follow these steps to get it working: 1) Download and install the approperiate decoder, my favorite is ffdshow. You&#8217;ll need the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-media-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieter.wigleven.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}