That the windows media player is unable to paly some movies it show the message wvc1 codec is required to paly this file.

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Hi.First option: Check up your Device manager maybe your videocard driver not yet install.
Second option: need reinstall operating system and install all driver and this free software for all movies player. click this safe site to get free mpcstar http://www.mpcstar.com/

Try downloading VLC media player or GOM player.They are free.
You can also try installing either k lite mega codec pack (free) or All-in -One Codec packs.Is it just a problem with this movie??Do you have problems playing other avi files??

you have to make sure the movie format is compatible by Windows Media Player.
Just get this tool to help you.
1. load your file to Video Sharer
2. choose AVI format
3. click" convert" button.
Then you will get the right format.
Here is the tool for you: http://www.asharer.com/download-video-sharer

Your media player might be having problems getting the video feed from the USB. try copying the file to your local disk and play the movie from there.

download VLC player, it is free, plays all movies
http://vlc-media-player.en.softonic.com/download

Have had same happen. Try clicking right and choosing open with....and choose windows Media player for list. Don't know why this is the part that works for me. double clicking the file has never worked for me. I get the wmp with the same error but when I select the wmp and let IT open the file....it works....I think it is magic and a stubborn way to do this but it works

Here:
http://www.mdgx.com/wmp.htm#ENC

Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile (WMV9AP) Update Beta for Windows
2000/XP/2003 includes SMPTE VC-1 standard + Advanced Profiles support
(WMCMD.VBS):
WMV9AP [899 KB]:
http://www-pc.uni-regensburg.de/systemsw/W...dia/wvc1dmo.exe
To install wvc1dmo.exe :
1. Create C:\TEMP (if not already present) (example):
MD C:\TEMP
2. Run:
WVC1DMO.EXE /C /Q /T:C:\TEMP
to extract the files into C:\TEMP .
3. Open Windows Explorer -> right-click on WVC1DMO.INF -> select Install.
This will copy the 2 DLLs to %windir%\system [%windir% = usually C:\WINDOWS]:
WVC1DMOD.DLL
WVC1DMOE.DLL
and will also properly regsvr32 them into the registry.
4. Done.

Hi Ganesh,
At this point what you can do is download and install a codec pack, which includes all necessary codecs for your computer, please download and install it from the following link.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.php?d=5012&s=775

Thanks,
Vipin Menon

As you may have heard, with the Xbox 360 Flash Fall 2006 System Update they are adding support for WMV video playback from new sources. Videos can be streamed from a PC running Windows Media Connect, Windows Media Player 11, or the new Zune client player, and can also be played from Optical Disc and most USB mass storage devices. For all these sources, only the WMV video file format and codecs are supported. How do I know if a video file will work on the Xbox 360? Currently only the Windows Media Video (WMV) file format and codecs are supported. If you have a file with a ?.wmv? extension, then the odds are pretty good that it will work. Technical details on the types of files we support can be found at the end of this post, but the easiest way to find out if a file will work or not is to just try it. Hopefully after you click play the video will show up on your display, but if the content is not supported you will simply get an ?Unplayable Content? message blade from the side of the screen and then be returned to the Video blade. How do I create videos that will play on my Xbox 360? Windows Movie Maker, a standard feature of Windows XPSP2, will output WMV video files compatible with the Xbox 360 console. Either use the default settings when you finish a movie and click ?Save to my computer,? or just make sure that the output video format you select shows the file type as ?Windows Media Video (WMV).? Videos will usually look best when they are closest to the original resolution that they were created with. Try to create video files at least 360 pixels high in vertical resolution in order to minimize content upscaling on the console. If you decide you want finer control of the output video file format, download a version of Windows Media Encoder (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/) and then start encoding away. Optimal size and bitrate settings will vary depending on the source material you are encoding. As a general guideline though, 1.5 Mbps is a typical bitrate that should be suitable for most standard definition content, and 8 Mbps is a common bitrate for high definition content. Can I get more technical details about the kinds of files you support? WMV video files with the extension ?.wmv? are stored in a generic file container format known as ASF. ASF files can contain many different types of codecs within them. Xbox 360 supports most common WMV video codecs, as seen in the following chart: Supported Video Codecs: Name FourCC Windows Media Video 7 WMV1 Windows Media Video 8 WMV2 Windows Media Video 9 WMV3 Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile WVC1 There are some files with ?.wmv? extension that may play on a PC, but are unsupported on the Xbox 360 console. Windows Media Screen, Windows Media 9 Image (Photostory), and some older Microsoft codecs are unsupported, as seen in the following chart: Unsupported Codecs: Name FourCC Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V3 MP43 Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2 MP42 Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1 MP41 Windows Media Screen V9 MSS2 Windows Media Screen V7 MSS1 Windows Media Video 9 Image WMVP Windows Media Video 9 Image v2 WVP2 ISO MPEG-4 Video V1 MP4S Anamorphic content with nonsquare pixels is currently unsupported on Xbox 360 console, and will be displayed as if the pixels were square. If you want to play such content on your console, it is recommended that you re-encode the content in a square pixel format.