I'm trying to play a video in Windows Media Player but it wont work?

[6.5 billion of me]

When I open it in VLC player it says use Windows Media Player. And when I do, it says the file is corrupt or it doesn't support the format. What should I do?

 

[Kowalski]

What do you mean? VLC player will never say use Windows media player.
Source: I use it all the time to play videos that wmp can't play because it doesn't have the codecs.

 

[texascool]

It sounds to me like the file that you are attempting to play is not a video at all. If it was downloaded, then you may try downloading it again. Then again, if you got it from a share site like torrent or limewire, then someone may have put a bug in it.

 

[dman]

Use the free NCH Video converter to change it into WMV format.