I want to be able to play flv files in windows media player, how am I to happen?

I use windows XP and media player 11 version, when I try to play a video clip is said "Windows media player cannot find the file '

Hello daninwyo, welcome.

FLV (Flash content), which is based on the web, is not supported in Windows Media Player. You have to find a third party codec package that supports flash or try a different media player on the internet.

You can try this:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=open+source+media+player&form=QBRE&QS=n

Hope this helps,

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