decompressor movie won't play

[John Christie]

From the library tab in my Limewire program I'm trying to launch a video clip (Firely the series) but when windows media player launches I get an error that reads "cannnot play back the video stream, no valid decompressor could be found"

What do I do/ am doing wrong.

I'm new to Limewire and this is my first attempt with it.

[Lord of the Rings]

That's because you're lacking the correct codecs to play the particular video files. I'd recommend getting VLC - (click on link) _ (choose nearest mirror site) as it has in-built codecs & is the most popular player for using with LW. It can stream video & audio. You can downld extra skins for it. You can play dvd's & vcd's with it, etc.

To make it your default player so LW opens it when you preview or play a video file, see Setting Default video app

If you'd prefer to get extra codecs instead for WMP, then press the Go button below & open the Sticky at the top of the section called 'Major Topics for Download/Upload Problems', & you'll find a link there.