Yep, ran into some problems with MediaPlayer 8 and The Playa on XP. I was trying to watch Enemy at The Gates DivX, which was using a special AC3 sound codec. Found an old copy of Media player 6.4.x ...

So yesterday I had my laptop at a friends house. He wanted to watch a video but my laptop couldn't play it w/o some codec updates. He had me install K-Lite codec pack. The file worked but now WMP ...

Microsoft published a new support page with details about codec support in the Windows Media Player app. As it turns out, the company is removing AC-3 Dolby Digital support in Windows 11 version 24H2.