I downloaded a movie and when I play it in VLC or Windows Media player – I get text over the movie being played – "Codec Error:Use Windows Media Player" followed by "Aborting video, redirected to Microsoft Codec Download page". The hour long video runs only for 15 seconds and opens a page on some torrent page which asks me to fill a survey form(which is irresponsive) to download VLC player again.
Is there any way I can work around it?
Best Answer
Dubious. Survey filling for a codec is a sure-shot giveaway for spam and email harvesting or other sorts of (drive-by) malware. Stay away from it.