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

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I had a similar problem after installing wmp 11 (no Vista, XP pro) and
found that if I enabled the Windows Live Messenger plugin in the Tools
menu that I had sound....go figger the marvels of microsoft....

On May 1, 1:44 pm, "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <n...@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:04:03 -0700, Jennifer

<Jenni...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Maybe someone out there has an idea--I can play music in my library and off
the web just fine inmediaplayer11. 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 ofmediaplayerand could
hearsoundjust fine before we upgraded. The funny thing is--I can remote in
to my old computer and hearsoundjust fine when playing avideoclip--so I
know my speakers andsoundcard 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 thevideoand audio ? ;-)

I also can't hear anysoundon the new computer when I try and playvideo
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 anysound.

It would be really surprising for the same problem to affect
realplayer andmediaplayerunless thesoundcard had missing drivers.

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

I don't know if this helps, but I checked out the properties of thevideo
clip I was trying to view inmediaplayer11 from Unitedstreaming and the
following audio codec was listed: WindowsMediaAudio V2, 20 kbps, 22kHz,
mono and the followingvideocodec was listed: Microsoft MPEG-4,videocodec

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

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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DigitalMediaMVP : 2004-2007http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs


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