Re: No volume control playing Flash videos in WMP9 on XP

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On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:15:20 -0700, Some dumb guy <abc@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:


WMP Classic and Winamp both have volume control for .flv files.

Have K-Lite Codec Pack 3.3.5 installed.

Any insights?

Codec packs generally break heaps of things (particularly Cole2k and
K-Lite among other culprits). Does the system recover if you remove
K-Lite and run FFDShow, enabling FLV playback instead ?
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDshow.htm

I'll investigate this. But seeing as how neither MP Classic nor Winamp
have this problem of loss of volume control when playing .flv files, I

Because MP classic and Winamp don't use directshow ? And the codec
packs install directshow codecs for use in WMP and similar software.


would assume the problem is specific to WMP9. I could find nothing in
WMP Options that might address this issue.

After uninstalled K-Lite Codec Pack, MP Classic would only play the
audio portion of .flv files at normal speed. No video.

WMP9 would play audio at what sounded like 50 to 100 times faster,
basically chipmunks on speed. No video.


See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#chipmunks


Winamp played the .flv files correctly, both audio and video, but unable
to increase the size of the video. This inability to increase size of
video applies not matter which codec is installed.


Real Player does FLV playback very well indeed, without otherwise
hosing your system. You also get "Download this video" buttons in web
pages with flash video present.



After uninstalling FFDshow and installing the latest version of K-Lite
Standard, the situation is back to where it was. WMP9 will correctly
play .flv files but without volume control.


So, we have a "winner" ? Cool.


The volume control on MP Classic was once inoperable and I was able to
fix this by going to MPC Options|Playback|Output and changing DirectShow
Audio from 'Default DirectSound Device' to 'Santa Cruz' (my soundcard
brand).

See also this link http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#dsound and possibly
the line "If you're still having issues, you can switch to use WaveOut
for audio rendering" below that.

Does the flash player on the BBC news website work OK ?

The volume control works fine in that situation.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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