Windows Media Player 10-I need help!

[steve homer]

Ok here is the problem..I recorded some videos on my digital camera, and when put onto my "kodak easyshare program" it says them as a realone player. I want it to be set as WMP. This also applies to all my other videos! Videos i download play in realoneplayer, when i want WMP! please help...(I've tried most of the obvious things)

[Fed]

Windows Explorer>Tools>Folder Options>File Types.
Or you could uninstall the real virus.  

[stevvyu]

didnt work..i cant find "file types"

[hey_its_stev0]

what do you mean by "uninstall the real virus"?


you say wnidows explorer...meaning internet?

[Raptor]

1. what do you mean by "uninstall the real virus"?

2. you say wnidows explorer...meaning internet?

1. Real Player is known to contain spyware. Remove it and find an alternative Real video and audio player.

2. Fed means the following:

1. Start
2. Settings
3. Control Panel
4. Folder options
5. File types tab

[hey_its_stev0]

ok..i went there...but now what?

[merlin_2]

Open with .....should  have  popped  up.....wmp.....

[Raptor]

ok..i went there...but now what?

You can configure the extensions to open with the program of your choosing.

[hey_its_stev0]

i go to extensions and i changed all the "realone player" icons to WMP. Then i go to play my video and the icon is still RP and it plays in RP. Now if i open with WMP, it says this and doesnt work:

"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."

[Raptor]

Real Player contains codecs that Windows Media Player does not. Hence the error. You may be able to obtain these codecs on the Internet.

I suggest that you look into Alternative Real Player

[hey_its_stev0]

ok i did this. I delted realone player..And it make it quicktime..Then i deleted quicktime, and it wouldnt let me run it in anything BUT quicktime.

[hey_its_stev0]

im downloading the codecs..what do i do when it completes?

[Raptor]

They are not codecs, it is a program which contains a part of Real player. Just not the spyware part.

If you wish to add codecs to Windows Media Player, search that website to see if you can find any you need. I never work with additional codecs apart from AC-7 and DivX, so I can not quite help you out there.

[hey_its_stev0]

i have no more hope...

[Fed]

"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."

If WMP cannot play the file, either get a program that can play the file or convert the file to something that WMP can play.