In the Playback folder, you will get a setting called Prevent Codec Download. Double-click on it and select the Enabled option. Click the OK button to save the change. After that, Windows Media Player ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

I've heard of (and even sometimes used) video players like VLC when Windows Media Player prompts me to download "new codecs", but I've also heard people talk about codec packs like K-Lite, Shark007, ...