So yesterday windows media player was playing everything fine. Then that exact night i recorded a YouTube video and when i went to play back the footage windows media player said this


I am on windows 8.1 and i have seen a bunch of possible fixes online and none of them work. Does anyone know how i can solve this.

I am aware of the 'Music' and 'Video' apps that come with windows 8.1 however i just want to not use them, However if i can't fix WMP i guess i will have to.

Does Windows Movie Player even support Mp4s? I use my own program, screw WMP.

Does Windows Movie Player even support Mp4s? I use my own program, screw WMP.

Yes, Because it is the latest version that comes with windows 8.1 there is no download from microsoft therefor i have to try and repair it from the computer.

Use this, https://www.apple.com/quicktime/ - Not to mention rendering as quicktime gives you the best possible quality.

I use the VLC media player basicially all the time as it is a quite handy tool for media playback. Download can be found here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Oh god not QuickTime. Use VLC instead. 

Yeah, use VLC player, the only time i ever use Windows Media Player is if the media/movie file isn't supported for VLC Player (which is mostly .mkv format).

PotPlayer is also a very good program, and it's what I use. I have no problem playing any codec or type of file that I give it.

http://potplayer.daum.net/Top.html?lang=en

Considering he is only using it to watch his videos and intro (Im assuming) it doesnt really matter what he uses.

It's made by Apple. It's bloatware. 

I use the VLC media player basicially all the time as it is a quite handy tool for media playback. Download can be found here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

So i just downloaded this and am using it :) i am loving it! It is basicly WMP but more advanced! Thanks for this!