The audio codec identified by the format tag 1 is required

I was using WMA 9 and everything was working just fine. Even my DivX movies
worked just fine. However, after upgrading to WMA10, I tried to play a movie
file and it said that there was an error playing the file, the codec failed
to download as well. After which I rolled back to WMA 9, that didn't solve
any problems, in fact it made it worse. Nothing is able to play on my WMA at
all. Not even my CDs. I have tried uninstalling and installing, but nothing
seems to be working.

Now, I get a new message that it requies some tag 1 codec. Which I have
tried finding but in vain. Could someone please help me out in this matter. I
am in desperate need of help.

Thanks.

 

I can't give you a solution to your problem, however
wFormatTag 1 means uncompressed audio, so there is no codec
required and that's why you won't find any. Have you tried
to re-install or upgrade the DirectX runtime?

 

Hi Alessandro,

Thanks for your suggestion. However, how do I upgrad the DirectX runtime?

 

You can download it from www.microsoft.com/directx.

 

I think the format tag 1 is a tag to identify a Audio recording done above 2 channel stereo (3 or above), if you set recording options to 2 channels (stereo) that you've recorded then play the audio file , it will play in media player . Although I don't know why this would happen with a a standard media file in WMP.