Windows Media player - why will it work at home but not at work?

[speckytecky]

How come Windows Media Player works fine and dandy away from the domain but on domain workstations it won't run properly complaining about missing codecs?

[LeMarchand]

Are these machines that definitely already have the codecs installed? If not, possibly wherever the codecs are downloaded from is filtered or the winhttp proxy is incorrect.

[sted]

try installing something like the win7/vista codec pack from shark 007 see if it works then (its also msi deployable though sophos sometimes finds it as iffy but then sophos seems to find mmc/robocopy among others as iffy)

[speckytecky]

Thanks sted,

 

Can you clarify please why you recommend the Vista pack over the XP Pack?

 

try installing something like the win7/vista codec pack from shark 007 see if it works then (its also msi deployable though sophos sometimes finds it as iffy but then sophos seems to find mmc/robocopy among others as iffy)

[SYNACK]

You probably want to go with the codec pack made for your OS, so if XP go XP. If you had 7 you probably would not need the codec pack for the vast majority of files as it has a bunch including DVD/MPEG2, quicktime, h.264, divx, xvid built in by default.

[sted]

Thanks sted,

 

Can you clarify please why you recommend the Vista pack over the XP Pack?

 

because as far as i remember there is no xp codec pack the vista codec pack is for xp and vista win7 codec pack for win7 only