BS Player cannot download codecs [EXPERT FIX]

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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BS Player is one of the best multimedia players on the market, but many users reported that BS Player can’t downloadcodecs. This can be a problem, but in today’s article, we’ll show you o how to fix this issue once and for all.

Here’s how one user on theBS Player forumdescribed the issue:

After I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 BSplayer worked fine. But I wanted to do a complete reinstall from Windows 10 and now I have a problem with the installation of BSplayer. During the installation it needs to downloadcodecsbut I get the following error message: “Codec list could not be downloaded. Please check your internet connection.” Of course my internet connection works and I still get the same message after rebooting the computer.

In order to fix this issue, we managed to come up with a few simple solutions that you should try.

What to do if BS Player won’t download codecs?

1. Run as administrator

2. Check your network connection

3. Disable your antivirus

If the file is not located in C:\Program Files, you should perform an antivirus scan with a suitable antivirus solution to remove the malware infection.

Asuitable and compatible antivirus programcan look for and detect the issue, and if the codec is corrupted, a thorough scan may simply remove the threat.

We also recommend that you remove or quarantine all infected files before completely reinstalling BS Player. The virus may have infected your entire system, and it is now replicating itself with each installation.

4. Turn off Windows Firewall

5. Manually download the codecs

If you can’t play videos in BS Player due to missingcodecs, check out our guide onhow to download and install all required codecs for Windows 10.

We hope that our guide on how to fix the BS Playercodecsdownload issue was of help to you. If you found this article helpful, leave a comment in the comment section below.

BS Player cannot download codecs [EXPERT FIX]#

What to do if BS Player won’t download codecs?#

1. Run as administrator#

2. Check your network connection#

3. Disable your antivirus#

4. Turn off Windows Firewall#

5. Manually download the codecs#