Windows Media Player - Can't find video codec for the file, will it still play the audio part ?

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Published on 2010-01-24T15:16:44Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 18:03 UTC
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If I try to play a movie file, whose video codec WMP doesn't recognize, and assuming it does know the audio type, will it play just the audio ? or will it flash an error message and stop? How do I test this out?

Thanks Roey

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