WMP11 problems with media files when attached to an email

Media player has problems with some (very random) media files while they are
attached in an email. For example, a .wma file WMP tells the recipient that
it can not play the .wma file - codec missing however, when the same file is
saved to the desktop WMP has no problems playing the file. I had a problem
with and .avi but slighly different, it played the file but audio only, again
when saved to the desktop both audio and video played fine. ANy clues?
Thanks!!!
PS - this was dupluicated on 3 seperate computers all using XPPro with WMP11
but all three used different email programs (Outlook2007, Outlook Express and
a Comcast web email program)

UPDATE - This is only a problem when trying to open a media file while in
Comcast's email program, Outlook and OE are fine. So it is a Comcast
problem, not WMP.

"Dr Bombay" wrote:

> Media player has problems with some (very random) media files while they are
> attached in an email. For example, a .wma file WMP tells the recipient that
> it can not play the .wma file - codec missing however, when the same file is
> saved to the desktop WMP has no problems playing the file. I had a problem
> with and .avi but slighly different, it played the file but audio only, again
> when saved to the desktop both audio and video played fine. ANy clues?
> Thanks!!!
> PS - this was dupluicated on 3 seperate computers all using XPPro with WMP11
> but all three used different email programs (Outlook2007, Outlook Express and
> a Comcast web email program)

I am having a similar intermittent problem --when trying to open a media file
as an attachment while in Comcast email -get an error message that -low on
memory --so it won't play --however, computer is not low on memory and WMP
works fine on direct internet sites. I had this problem several weeks ago -it
went away -and now it is back --don't know what to do to fix/prevent ---any
ideas?

mm5

"Dr Bombay" wrote:

> UPDATE - This is only a problem when trying to open a media file while in
> Comcast's email program, Outlook and OE are fine. So it is a Comcast
> problem, not WMP.
>
> "Dr Bombay" wrote:
>
> > Media player has problems with some (very random) media files while they are
> > attached in an email. For example, a .wma file WMP tells the recipient that
> > it can not play the .wma file - codec missing however, when the same file is
> > saved to the desktop WMP has no problems playing the file. I had a problem
> > with and .avi but slighly different, it played the file but audio only, again
> > when saved to the desktop both audio and video played fine. ANy clues?
> > Thanks!!!
> > PS - this was dupluicated on 3 seperate computers all using XPPro with WMP11
> > but all three used different email programs (Outlook2007, Outlook Express and
> > a Comcast web email program)