No Visualization in WMP11   

Hello:

I am currently using XP SP2 on an Intel Core 2 E8500. Something strange 
happened lately. Under WMP11, I can get video (e.g. avi)/music (e.g. mp3) to 
play fine using it without any problems. However, when I choose to play a 
music file (such as an mp3), where there would've been some sort of 
visualization effects being played under the Now Playing tab, doesn't get 
displayed.

When the music file is being played, I have gone and made certain that it is 
indeed set on one of the Visualization effects (such as Alchemy) and that the 
"No Visualization" is "not" selected. This didn't happen on other systems I 
own or use at home or at the office. So the gist of it is, I hear the music 
that played fine, but no Visualization is being displayed even when a 
Visualization scheme is selected.

This normally isn't that big of a deal for me as I have another software to 
handle my music playing (Winamp, and the Visualizations "do" work with it) 
and I just use WMP11 mainly to just do a quick listen to music files just to 
make sure they play correctly. I just don't remember there was a setting that 
I did in WMP that could've cause this.... Could certain plug-ins be the 
cause? A setting there perhaps? The last thing I did was changing some 
AC3filter settings to allow S/PDIF passthrough out to my 5.1 speakers when 
playing DVD titles, but that really shouldn't have messed with it, right?

Puzzled and hopes for some suggestions....

Shohoku79
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date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:45:00 -0700   author:   Shohoku79

Re: No Visualization in WMP11   

Ac3filter does seem pretty potentially suspicious here.  What happens if you 
turn that off?

Is video otherwise working?

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"Shohoku79"  wrote in message 
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> Hello:
>
> I am currently using XP SP2 on an Intel Core 2 E8500. Something strange
> happened lately. Under WMP11, I can get video (e.g. avi)/music (e.g. mp3) 
> to
> play fine using it without any problems. However, when I choose to play a
> music file (such as an mp3), where there would've been some sort of
> visualization effects being played under the Now Playing tab, doesn't get
> displayed.
>
> When the music file is being played, I have gone and made certain that it 
> is
> indeed set on one of the Visualization effects (such as Alchemy) and that 
> the
> "No Visualization" is "not" selected. This didn't happen on other systems 
> I
> own or use at home or at the office. So the gist of it is, I hear the 
> music
> that played fine, but no Visualization is being displayed even when a
> Visualization scheme is selected.
>
> This normally isn't that big of a deal for me as I have another software 
> to
> handle my music playing (Winamp, and the Visualizations "do" work with it)
> and I just use WMP11 mainly to just do a quick listen to music files just 
> to
> make sure they play correctly. I just don't remember there was a setting 
> that
> I did in WMP that could've cause this.... Could certain plug-ins be the
> cause? A setting there perhaps? The last thing I did was changing some
> AC3filter settings to allow S/PDIF passthrough out to my 5.1 speakers when
> playing DVD titles, but that really shouldn't have messed with it, right?
>
> Puzzled and hopes for some suggestions....
>
> Shohoku79
> -- 
>

date: Sun, 4 May 2008 23:26:49 -0700   author:   zachd [MSFT]