Windows Media Player 11. Question of MP4

Hello

I have Windows Vista and I am trying to play a video on Windows media player 11 but get the following error message - "the file you are trying to play has an extension (.mp4) that does not correspond to the file format.

Can you please tell how I can get around this to get my video to play?

Thanks a lot for your help

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http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-Pictures?tab=unanswered

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