Error 1

It could be so. I have tried with and without, however on that profile it still does not work. Has it solved anybody elses problem by creating another user and doing things through that new profile. t worked for me. A bit messy I agree but it saves a reformat

Out of curiosity, what was everyone else doing when this happened? I was editing movies and encoding VCD’s with VirtualDub and TMpgEnc.

I was installing a codec to try and get a film to play. However after that this happened. Uninstalling did not work. Only the other user profiles on the machine were unafected

I’ve found something that works. It’s called VLC media player. It plays all file types with sound including .avi .mpg .asf ............

It is very glitchy though. You even have to open the program first then open the files for it to work. At least I can get audio on all my files though.

I had the same error tag 1 message, had video with no sound and was able to fix without installing any codec. I just went to control panel and started deleting all the codecs i had installed on my own to see if this helped and it worked. This wont hurt Media Player because Media Player does install some required codecs on it’s own.

It seems some codecs don’t work well with others. One of the codecs i installed on my own most likely was interfering with Media Player. As soon as i uninstalled all my codecs, media player had sound and was fine. See if this works. Let me know if this helps anyone.

I had this problem come up today while I was fiddling with soundcard drivers and audio codecs. Switching to a new user account in Windows worked, but it was a serious PITA.

I decided I would give up WMP9 for now and downloaded Media Player Classic. MPC played all my video files without any trouble at all. Indeed, this app is superior to WMP9 in many ways. But just for S&G I opened up WMP9 again and tried to play a movie, and VOILA! It worked perfectly. Not exactly sure what I did there, but MPC seemed to clean things up for Windows Media Player 9. In addition, I got my S/PDIF out to work on my sound card so now I can play my AC3 movies in glorious 5.1 DD.

I’m still thinking about just sticking with MPC. It’s a much cleaner interface, and not nearly as bulky at less than 1 MB (1 file!).

Well I did the same and guess what WMP9 works again, not tried a reeboot yet but it certainly does seem to have fixed it

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!
Windows media player classic works great!
Here’s a link if anyone has a hard time finding it.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358&release_id=205239

It’s Media Player Classic (MPC). It has nothing to do with Windows Media Player (which is made by Microsoft).

I’m sure Gabest (the maker of MPC) doesn’t won’t to be associated with Microsoft.

It’s Media Player Classic (MPC). It has nothing to do with Windows Media Player (which is made by Microsoft).

I’m sure Gabest (the maker of MPC) doesn’t [edit]want[/edit] to be associated with Microsoft.

I don’t think that’s the point, we were all looking for a fix and it did so who created what program is immaterial

Had the same problem here.

I first noticed I wasn’t able to play audio CDs in Windows Media Player using digital playback (switching device to analogue worked, presumably because that doesn’t require a codec) then noticed I wasn’t getting audio on video files either.

Not sure what I did yesterday to break it. Only vaguely media-related thing was install PowerDVD and dabble with the AC3filter settings.

Anyway, after hours of removing and re-installing WMP, DirectX and every codec in sight simply running Media Player Classic did the trick for me! Thanks for the tip guys.

I have the same error, but the thing is, only some of my files' sounds don’t work. At first I had no sound for any of them, but I got DivX and XviD and some files had sound and some didn’t. I don’t know why some files work while others don’t.

I had the same error message and resolved the problem by going to the following website and installing 2 codecs: divx 311alpha and divx 412

http://www.divx-digest.com/software/index2.html#codecs

i was having the same problems, so i reinstalled all my codecs(divx 4.12,3.11,5.05,xvid) and wmp 9 and then restarted and it all started working again

I typed the error report into google and clicked the second listing- microsoft`s support and followed the thread on renaming corrupt mp3 decoder. Worked perfectly.

I’m having trouble playing divx files. I have all the right, up-to-date codecs, but my video files still play with sound. I tried hunting for Media Player Classic, but I must be blind as a bat. Can someone help me?

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_players/media_player_classic.cfm

go to free-codecs.com and install mpeg layer 3 codecs

I HAD that problem to, now i solved it !!
If i doesn’t work, you probably didn’t follow the instructions!! Else, you can yust dumb mail to me !

Format tags, such as tag 55, are used by the Player to identify which decoder to use to play back your content. If you get the following error message, “The audio codec identified by the format tag 55 is required to play this file”, then the MP3 decoder on your computer has become corrupted or damaged in some way, and needs to be replaced. To fix this problem on a computer running Windows XP and Windows Media Player 9 Series:

From the Start menu, click Search.
Under What do you want to search for? click All files and folders.
Under All or part of the file name, type l3codeca.acm
Click Search.
When the results are displayed, right-click the file and then click Rename. Rename the file l3codeca.bak
Open Windows Media Player.
From the Help menu, click Check for Updates. An up-to-date version of l3codeca.acm will be installed on your computer.