It seems that this old trick for fooling Windows users to download and install malware on their PCs is now working on Mac users. Why? Because with 50% of new Macs being sold to people who used to run ...

If you receive an error message – Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file, when you try to play AVI, WAV, MOV, etc., you need to install ...

QuickTime is a proprietary video format from Apple. It was supported on Windows till until recently Apple decided not to anymore. So how do you play QuickTime videos in Windows 11/10? There are a ...

I've used a lot of media players over the years, but I've always avoided Windows Media Player like the plague. Then I encountered Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7, and suddenly I find myself ...

Yesterday we reported a problem with the new beta release of Real Player 10, where -- upon connection to some streaming radio stations -- users are told that they need an uninstalled audio codec, but ...

Ok, I have a copy of Windows XP, and one of the things Windows Media Player 8 can do is play DVD movies if another program has already installed the codecs (well that is what I've come to understand ...

In a quarterly support document Microsoft has confirmed that starting from version 24H2, Windows 11 will no longer support the AC-3 audio codec. For those unfamiliar, it is an audio codec that ...

Let’s face it; the stock media player of Microsoft Windows operating system has become completely obsolete. Well, to be honest, it never had large fan following, and when free and better players like ...

I was at winsupersite.com and read about the registry tweak to enable higher bitrate mp3 encoding with an external encoder using Windows Media Player 8 in Windows XP. The only question I have is where ...

Microsoft has published a new support page with details about codec support in Windows 10 and 11. For those unfamiliar, codecs are software bits that make it possible to play different audio and video ...