Win Media Player / Video Clip Blocked
Hello-
When I try to load a vid clip on Mom's new Dell Dimension 8400 3.4 GHz, 1GB with Windows Media Player Ver 10, I receive the following two error messages, courtesy of Win XP SP2:
1. Windows has blocked this software becuase it cannot verify the publisher
Name: sg726acm.cab
Publisher: unknown publisher
I follow the help banner and:
IE->Tools->Internet->Content->Publisher
and try to import the video clip, but this doesn't work, apparently becuase the publisher / certificate aren't recognized.
2. An audio codec is needed to play this file. To determine if this codec is available to download from the Web, click Web Help.
NOTE: Problem occurs with .ASF files, but .AVI files seem to work fine. Suggestions for resolving these two errors would be appreciate since I am unable to watch the video clip on this computer.
Thx.
Scott
Re: Win Media Player 10 & Win XP SP2
So far now luck; I downloaded the codec files and verified player was set to download CODECs automatically. Where might I find setting to automatically updated certificates? Thx for your time and help; I appreciate it.
Quote:
Go to player options and set the player to automatically update certificates and automatically search for missing codecs.
Problem Resolved: Needed the correct CODEC
Problem solved. Basically had to find the right CODEC, which was found by searching for the publisher: sg726acm.cab
Correct site from which to download the CODEC is referenced below.
http://codecs.microsoft.com/codecs/i386/sg726acm.cab
Note: I had downloaded several CODECs before and they failed to resolve the problem until I found that above.
Thanks.
Scott
How can I install the sg726acm.cab codec for WMP 10?
Dear 'smartin22':
I read your post 'Problem solved' but I couldn't find any details as to just how you installed the 'sg726acm.cab' codec which WMP 10 won't automatically install because it is not signed by Microsoft or is from an 'unknown publisher'.
Please tell me how to install it. I have downloaded the above codec from the link in your post but don't know what to do with it. I have received some video clips from a friend's digital camera that have an .asf extention which is supposed to be supported by Windows Media Player (WMP) but they won't play because the necessary codec isn't installed. Hope you can be of help and thanks in advance!
Sincerely,
McSlick
Yes, I know about K-Lite. See message.
Thanks Conan, I mean Arnold! (Now the Mayor of my beloved homestate CA.).
Yes, I know about the K-Lite codec pack. It sounds pretty inviting but would require I uninstall DivX. Not too long ago, I upgraded my codecs with a pack from DivX which made a couple of other video encoding programs I use quite regularly, work even better than before. I'm not sure if the K-lite pack would enable these programs to work as well as they do now. All I really need, according to other sourses as well as WMP 10, is one codec 'sg726acm.cab' to get WMP 10 to view the .asf video clips.
The thread I was trying to get a reply from was by 'smartin22' who said 'Problem solved...'. But there was no explanation as to exactly how he did it.
Does anyone know how to install the 'sg726acm.cab' codec which WMP 10 won't install automatically because it's from an 'unknown publisher'?
Manually set ActiveX downloads to prompt almost worked!
Thanks 'Abinadius'!
Your advice almost did the trick. After setting the ActiveX download options to 'prompt' I at least was able to select 'intall' the codec when I opened the .asf file with WMP 10, but after that I got 'error downloading codec' in the status bar. I tried repeatedly, rebooted, went back to the settings to make sure they didn't reset to 'default', thay hadn't. Still no luck :( Thanks for trying! Take care and happy computing :)