No Sound From DVDs [Archive]

yossarian084

14 Jul 2006, 11:34pm

This may be a newbie type question, but when I try to play a DVD there is no sound. The default player is Windows Mediaplayer and I have the latest version. I can play music, games and guitar using the computer so the card is working properly. Any suggestions?

profdlp

15 Jul 2006, 3:21am

In WMP, go to Tools>>Options>>DVD>>Advanced and see if changing any of the settings and/or levels there makes a difference.

Do audio CD's work in the drive?

yossarian084

15 Jul 2006, 4:30pm

Going into Advanced, there are no audio options checked and when I try to do that, I can't Apply the settings so they don't stay checked. Audio CDs work in the drive.....

Thrax

15 Jul 2006, 5:04pm

Try downloading AC3Filter (http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/).

yossarian084

15 Jul 2006, 5:19pm

Downloaded it. Still wont work but I'm not sure how I use this program.

Thrax

15 Jul 2006, 9:21pm

It's just a codec to decode AC3 audio streams, which is the audio format used by DVDs. It sounds like you have a broken install of WMP.

Try installing Media Player Classic (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc2kxp6490.zip?download), and play the DVD with that.

yossarian084

15 Jul 2006, 10:17pm

that did it. Any way to fix WMP?

Thrax

16 Jul 2006, 12:19am

Try redownloading and reinstalling the WMP package (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b446ae53-3759-40cf-80d5-cde4bbe07999&DisplayLang=en).