How does the Windows 7 system come with the WMP12 default decoder?

What is the WMP12 default decoder?

Windows Media Player is abbreviated as WMP. WMP is mainly for common media formats, such as WMV, MP3, WAV, AVI and other media files, and it also takes care of the flow. The heavy duty of media playback, many video live broadcasts are WMP to watch.

WMP12 default decoder role:

WMP 12 can be called the most powerful, it can effectively manage your music, video, pictures and recorded TV programs, with Windows7 The media library, we can share data within the home network, very convenient. Moreover, WMP12 supports playback of HD format video, which is much more than the video format supported by WMP. Of course, compared with other professional players, there is still a certain gap.

Note: The following operations are only for WMP 12 when using local video files when playing local video files; modifying the registry editor is risky, please pay attention to backup.

1. Start the Registry Editor and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftDirectShowPreferred

2. Right click on “Preferred”, select “Permissions”< Br>

3. Click ““Advanced” in the lower right corner of the window, then go to the “Owner” column and select “In the box” in the “Change owner” box to “ Administrators”, check the "Replace Owner on subcontainers and objects" under the "Replace Owner on subcontainers and objects" column, click “ OK & rdquo; make the operation take effect.

4, back to the "Permissions" window, in the "Security" box above, select "Administrators", and then select the full control in the "Administrators permissions" below "Allow”. This way you can modify the Preferred item of the registry.

5, then find these two items in the right box:

{e06d8026-db46-11cf-b4d1-00805f6cbbea}

{31435641-0000-0010 -8000-00AA00389B71}

Double-click them respectively to bring up the “Edit String” dialog box and fill in the data value with the decoder CLSid (class identifier) ​​you wish to use.

The following are the CLSids of some commonly used decoders:

FFDShow - {04FE9017-F873-410E-871E-AB91661A4EF7}

MPCVideoDecoder - {008BAC12-FBAF-497B-9670 -BC6F6FBAE2C4}

COREAVC - {09571A4B-F1FE-4C60-9760-DE6D310C7C31}

Restart your computer when you are done.