Re: No sound from video clip played in Media Player 11 on Vista

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:04:03 -0700, Jennifer
<Jennifer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe someone out there has an idea--I can play music in my library and off
the web just fine in media player 11. My husband recently upgraded my
computer to Vista Business. I use a website called Unitedstreaming for


I was using Windows XP Pro and a previous version of media player and could
hear sound just fine before we upgraded. The funny thing is--I can remote in
to my old computer and hear sound just fine when playing a video clip--so I
know my speakers and sound card and whatever else are working properly.

You mean it comes out of the speakers of the "old" machine ?

Or you mean you access files over a network from the remote machine,
and play them on the second (working) machine, and are surprised to
hear the second machine playing the video and audio ? ;-)



I also can't hear any sound on the new computer when I try and play video
clips using Realplayer either. If I go to Realplayer's website I can hear
"commercials" just fine, but if I click on a movie preview to watch the
video, I don't get any sound.


It would be really surprising for the same problem to affect
realplayer and media player unless the sound card had missing drivers.

However because you can hear some of the content, presumably the sound
card is working (do you get the Vista startup-sound when you turn the
PC on ?)


I don't know if this helps, but I checked out the properties of the video
clip I was trying to view in media player 11 from Unitedstreaming and the
following audio codec was listed: Windows Media Audio V2, 20 kbps, 22kHz,
mono and the following video codec was listed: Microsoft MPEG-4, video codec

Yeah well there's one remaining thing I'd check before trying to
figure out what's up with real player too - have hum check out this
page http://www.w3exchange.com/t674-3-a-bug-in-wmp-91011.html and see
if it makes any change in the playback from the original website you
quoted.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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