When i try and play an xvid video file, i get the following message on windows media player: "This pin cannot use the supplied media type". I've played this file before and its worked fine, why all of a sudden iis this happening? Any help would be appreciated.
I have the same problem. I suspect its because I've recently changed my sound playback digital device from the installed one to the driver that supports the USB link to my Kenwood stereo.
I don't know how to fix it, or why this is happening, but if anyone knows, I'd really appreciate a little help
You got it right ! ~~smiles! this is a DirectX error and if you update your sound card drivers and then re-install DirectX , you should get rid of the the error.
Microsoft DirectX is an advanced suite of multimedia application programming interfaces (APIs) built into Microsoft Windows; operating systems.Simply put, DirectX is a Windows technology that enables higher performance in graphics and sound when you?re playing games or watching video on your PC.
Quote: Do I also have to reconfigure anything in my system?
YES, go back to your SoundMax !
Then you will know that your change of sound driver is causing the problem.
This is what my original post meant.
Please dont re-iterate--- people answering you are doing this in their spare time and dont have the time to treat this Forum as a Chat Board, my answer was a process for you to answer that question yourself .
You dont happen to have an All-In-Wonder card and used its DVD-Player lately ? I think this DVD-Player application makes some changes to the codecs when you start it, and when you exit the application it writes back the configuration that you had before.
I had the same error. Start the DVD-Player, exit it. After this I can play any file again with no such error msg.
