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I cannot play audio / video in Media Player it gives me an error cannot open file, why?

April 26, 2017audio Error file gives media play Player video

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I cannot play audio / video in Media Player it gives me an error cannot open file, why?

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I do not know! Try downloading a DivX trailer from Digital Digest (or wherever) and see if it plays first. If it doesn’t, you can try installing the codec’s again. Also it could be that the movie was made as a Navi SMR, Angelpotion or a Hacked M$ Mpeg-4 codec. If this is the case then try installing one or all of them. Make sure you also use the “run me first” option when installing the DivX codec. Reinstall the radium codec’s etc., for audio. If the trailer you downloaded plays perfect but the DivX you encoded doesn’t it is more likely a problem with how it was encoded. You could try DivXFix to repair it or opening it and resaving it in VirtualDub if you like. Other than that I do not know what could be wrong. This falls into one of those weird Windows problems we may never track down. Please don’t email me unless you have a solution on this one becasue I do not know any other solutions for this.