Such is burned into WMP to stem piracy. I am not going to discuss if this is piracy or not.
An in Europe a WMP free version of XP will some be offered. Time to create your content witout such oddities and restrictions.
Bob
We have one computer with Windows Media Center and we recorded several TV shows with it. That computer is networked to another that runs Windows XP but does not have WMC. I have tried to view the TV shows with Windows Media Player vers. 10 and with WinDVD4. It can play the sample video that came with the Windows Media Center, but not our recorded shows. It says it is missing CODEC C00D10D1.
After looking at other posts, I tried looking for the needed codec at DiVX (but although I downloaded and installed the player, I don't know if I automatically got all the codecs) and with the ACE mega pack (which I haven't installed because there were too many choices of things to install and I had no idea which ones I needed).
So, do I need more instruction on how to install codecs, or is it something worse like not being able to view recordings on anything other than the media center? I thank you for any help!!

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