WMP11 - Vista X64 - VC-1 - C00D1199

Hello chaps and ladies,

I installed Vista x64 the other day, and did what I normally did on Vista
x86 which is to install the Community Codec Pack. However having done that,
it was not working as expected, so I removed that, did some hunting around
and installed the Vista Codec Pack and then the x64 components pack. With
those installed, everything worked except for wmvhd (vc-1) content. In order
to rule out any encoding issues with the file I downloaded the amazing caves
sampled from the Microsoft site. When I play any VC-1 content WMP sulks and
says:

"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the
file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the
file."

If I click on the web help it reports I have error "C00D1199".

At this stage I have removed all the codec packs I had installed since I
just want to get windows back to its vanilla state. I cannot seem to manage
to do that..... Any suggestions?

As a side note, I downloaded Media Player Classic last night, and it *does*
play back VC-1 content......

Help! Thanks....

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Francis Bacon

"Francis Bacon" <francis__bacon@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> At this stage I have removed all the codec packs I had installed since I
> just want to get windows back to its vanilla state. I cannot seem to
> manage to do that..... Any suggestions?

As a last measure resort before "upgrading" Vista, I re-installed the codec
packs one at a time, set them to their default settings, and then
uninstalled them, each with a reboot. That fixed it.

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Francis