How to get the missing codec for wmv file: error message says 0xc101008f (0xc00d5212)

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0xc101008f (0xc00d5212) wmv codec is missing in windows 8
Please help me resolve this question. I can play a windows media file on my old windows 7 computer but now that I have a new windows 8 machine the windows media player on my new computer says it can't play the video because of the codec error above.

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