I have seen many, many posts on this subject where the problem seemed to be
missing or corrupt codecs. this is not my problem, however. i have simple
avi files that always worked but now wmp insists there is missing codec.
most of the files were made using MRLE codec which doesn't need to be
decompressed. i installed and ran g-spot and mediainfo; codec was found
however rendering failed. i rolled back wmp from ver 10 to 9; i even tried
ver 6.4 .... no luck - same error. the avi's run fine in quicktime and divx
which confirmed the problem is not with the files but rather with wmp.

any help or insight in how to fix problem would be greatly appreciated.

thanks much,
jc

Well, MRLE actually does require decoding (David wrote this yearssssss ago),
it's just a much more special codec than others. I believe it's the only
codec available in Win16 or something bizarre like that... ?
I'm assuming these files are on your local system?

According to regedit, MRLE is decoded by msrle32.dll on your system. Is
that file still around... ?

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"jorene" <jorene@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have seen many, many posts on this subject where the problem seemed to be
> missing or corrupt codecs. this is not my problem, however. i have
> simple
> avi files that always worked but now wmp insists there is missing codec.
> most of the files were made using MRLE codec which doesn't need to be
> decompressed. i installed and ran g-spot and mediainfo; codec was found
> however rendering failed. i rolled back wmp from ver 10 to 9; i even
> tried
> ver 6.4 .... no luck - same error. the avi's run fine in quicktime and
> divx
> which confirmed the problem is not with the files but rather with wmp.
>
> any help or insight in how to fix problem would be greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks much,
> jc
>