Microsoft’s Windows Media Player enables the playback of a variety of audio and video file types, such as MP3, AVI and DIVX. Windows Media Player, like all media player software, requires codecs to identify and play each file type. Because software creators and electronics companies produce new file types and new multimedia applications on a fairly regular basis, your version of WMP might not have all the codecs necessary to play every video or audio file you try to open. When you attempt to open a file for which WMP lacks a codec, WMP displays a “fix codec error.” Tips Warnings Writer Bio
