Windows Media Player Problem after upgrading to 8.1

Hello, I upgraded my Yoga 13 from windows 8.0 to Windows 8.1 and now Media player 12 gives me this error message:
"Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."
I had Divx Codecs installed prior to upgrading so I tried uninstalling them which did not work, then I tried reinstalling Media Player which did not work either.
Any ideas??
Solved!
Go to Solution.

This problem is actually caused by the Conexant audio driver. Something about the Windows 8.1 installation screws up the this driver installation.  The fix is to reinstall the Conexant audio driver from the Lenovo driver page:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS032590

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