Will Media Player Play a soundcards. MOV file?

How I can... or is - Windows Media Player can play a video file with the extension. MOV?  . I get the message that reads he does support the file and there may be a problem with the codec?  Any help is appreciated on how to get these files to read is greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Paul

Hi Paul,.

Welcome to the Microsoft Community and thanks for posting your question related to Windows Media Player.

You get an error "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The player might not support the file type or does not support the codec used to compress the file"during playback of video files with .mov extensions.

Windows Media Player 12 is the version of the drive supported on Windows 8. . MOV files are supported both on Windows Media Player. However, you seem to get this error.

The reason for this may be listed in this note here.

Apple Computer developed the QuickTime file format to create, edit, publish, and view multimedia files. QuickTime format can contain video, animation, graphics, 3D and virtual reality (VR) content. Only QuickTime version 2.0 or earlier files can be played in Windows Media Player. Later versions of QuickTime require the Apple QuickTime Player owner. For more information, visit the following Apple Web site:

http://www.Apple.com/QuickTime

There are scenarios where installation right codecs have helped users to read files. You try to install codecs for Windows Media Player referring to the measures in these links.

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/codecs-frequently-asked-questions#codecs-frequently-asked-questions=Windows-8

These links provide more information about the formats supported by Windows Media Player 12.

Types of files supported by Windows Media Player

See also,

How to determine the version of Windows Media Player

The information should be useful to work towards a solution to this problem. Write to us if you need further assistance.

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