Windows media player will not play sound in online sites   

I have tryed to play sites lick C-Span with the windows media player, I have 
tried many others sites.  The video works fine but there is no sound?  I 
really have tried changing all setting but the sound does not generate.  Real 
player work fine, but many of the sites I want to play do not use this 
program.  Any help would be nice

date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:41:01 -0700   author:   fist01

Re: Windows media player will not play sound in online sites   

fist01  wrote:

> I have tryed to play sites lick C-Span with the windows media player, I have
> tried many others sites.  The video works fine but there is no sound?


WMP for Mac has very limited codec support.
You might be better of installing the Flip4Mac WMV codecs for QuickTime.
They provide a much better support. Install them and try the site again,

Corentin


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date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:25:40 -0500   author:   Corentin ()

RE: Windows media player will not play sound in online sites   

I opened Windows Media Player (WMP).  I was working with Version 9.  You go 
to the main menu and click on “tools.”  Then you select “options.”  

A window will pop up.  You look for the tab that says “DVD.”  Next you click 
on the “Advanced” button towards the bottom. Now on the 3 machines that had 
been having this problem (some were running WMP Version 9, and some were 
running WMP Version 10 or 11) the screen/window that popped up looked like 
the screen shot in the link below.  After clicking on the link below, scroll 
down till you see a grey screen with a blue banner that says “Properties.”    

http://www.w3exchange.com/t674-3-a-bug-in-wmp-91011.html  

That is the window that you will see on your computer if you have this 
problem, again whether you have WMP V9, 10 or 11.  Click on the “System” tab 
on your computer’s WMP window.  Then make your computer look like the screen 
shot on the above link.  In my case, I had to deselect (uncheck) PCM and MPEG 
Audio and I think one thing on the right hand side.  Anyway, just make your 
screen look like the one in the screen shot.  

BTW, the one newer computer that did not have this problem had no “DVD” tab 
at all on her WMP Version 9.  And here at work, I have WMP version 11, I have 
a DVD tab, but when I click on the “Advanced” tab in that window, I do NOT 
get anything that looks like the screen shot.  So obviously, you only have 
this problem in unusual cases where you don’t have a proper DVD SW or you 
have an unusual type.
  
"fist01" wrote:

> I have tryed to play sites lick C-Span with the windows media player, I have 
> tried many others sites.  The video works fine but there is no sound?  I 
> really have tried changing all setting but the sound does not generate.  Real 
> player work fine, but many of the sites I want to play do not use this 
> program.  Any help would be nice

date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:34:00 -0800   author:   sarky

Re: Windows media player will not play sound in online sites   

sarky  wrote:

> That is the window that you will see on your computer if you have this
> problem, again whether you have WMP V9, 10 or 11.



Hum... This is the group for the Mac version of WMP. THere is no such
thing as WMP10 or 11 for us and there is no DVD Tab in the Mac version
;-)


Corentin

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date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:21:33 -0600   author:   Corentin ()