I have played a lot of content with VLC Player when WMP fails. It could be a codec issue but let's see if the video plays with VLC Player. And now where do I get VLC? Ninite. Here's why.
http://www.howtogeek.com/201354/ninite-is-the-only-safe-place-to-get-windows-freeware/
If anyone could help that would be amazing something very bad happened.]
I use windows 8.1 im using hypercam v2 and i was recording something very important worth 100$ and i got scammed but for some reason when i try to open my video it says "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file."
Ive recorded 100s of times and this never happens so why is it saying this and please if anyone can help me fix this that would be a life saver!
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