Curse

onerabbit · Dec 02, 2007, 04:21 PM // 16:21

Hey all .. title says most of it.

i can play dvds but i dont have any sound.. im running them in windows media player...
CDs are fine .. just DvDs.. any help

Abedeus · Dec 02, 2007, 05:32 PM // 17:32

Maybe try to run them in Winamp? Or get that DvD to a friend of yours, test it and if you still don't hear sound... Check your dvd-rom.

Chthon · Dec 02, 2007, 05:45 PM // 17:45

I'm stumped.

If you were on Windows 98, I'd tell you to go attach your CD/DVD audio cable, but you don't need one these days.

If I had to take a guess, I'd blame Windows Media Player. Try VLC and see if that works. (Then you should probably keep on using VLC because it's free and has better sound and picture quality then windows media player.) If you don't have sound in VLC either, then we need to look for a more systematic problem.

gone · Dec 02, 2007, 05:47 PM // 17:47

i'm surprised you even got WmP to play a dvd without d/l codecs.
and if you did d/l codecs that might be your source of woes.

onerabbit · Dec 02, 2007, 05:54 PM // 17:54

i got sound in VLC

Chthon · Dec 02, 2007, 08:03 PM // 20:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by onerabbit

i got sound in VLC

Good!

Quote:

Originally Posted by flubber

i'm surprised you even got WmP to play a dvd without d/l codecs.
and if you did d/l codecs that might be your source of woes.

I haven't paid much attention to WMP in a long time, but I thought that they went over to full-featured DVD playback (meaning DVD codecs included) several versions ago. Are you sure you still need to download codecs separately to make it play DVD's?

gone · Dec 03, 2007, 10:37 AM // 10:37

every version of WMP that I have ever used, even with the latest version included in vista has required me to d/l codecs for dvd playback. which is why, I never use it. if I'm gonna have to d/l codecs I may as well d/l a proggy that doesn't want to snoop around my comp. lol.

with WMP, it's sound and no vid...or no vid but sounds. if it will even read said media(w/o needed codecs).

Chthon · Dec 03, 2007, 07:58 PM // 19:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by flubber

every version of WMP that I have ever used, even with the latest version included in vista has required me to d/l codecs for dvd playback. which is why, I never use it. if I'm gonna have to d/l codecs I may as well d/l a proggy that doesn't want to snoop around my comp. lol.

with WMP, it's sound and no vid...or no vid but sounds. if it will even read said media(w/o needed codecs).

Just one more reason to stay the hell away from WMP then.