Video no sound, music cd sound OK!

[BruceMyers48]

I can play an DVD movie and the video works fine but I have no audio. I can play an music cd and the sound works fine. I tries it in media player and nero. Media player is a pain half the time it won't play an movie because of some rights problem. The movies are legal out of the store. I use to run a audio cable from the cd and dvd's to the motherboard in the old days, but haven't in a while because the audio would work either way. This is new MSI board with on board audio and works fine with music cd's but no audio on video's. Anyone have a clue.


That was my post with the problem. I did get sound to work with movies but only after installing WinDVD7. I noticed that it installed a DVD Audio driver. Why don't the other programs have that like Media player, nero, realplayer. I thought that a fresh install and update of XP would have all the drivers for DVD especially as long as we have been using them?

 

[g-paw]

If you can get audio from your DVDs, then it's not likely a driver problem because this audio goes through you audio card. Check Devise Manager and back sure there are no yellow ! marks. Check your audio software settings. On old Audigy card I had the default setting was Digital and the audio would only work if I change it to analogue

 

[BruceMyers48]

I can sound only from mp3's or an regular audio cd. This only happens when I insert a movie and windows media player says " WMP cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with the digital copy protection between your dvd, decoder, and video card.

I have update the video card drivers, and update the media player to version 11.
Now when you try to play move with nero I get video and no sound. when I installed Windvd 7 it installed a DVD audio driver and after that all three programs started playing movies with the sound.

 

[g-paw]

Why don't you try playing the movie using VLC? A free video player and will play almost everything. I other than Windows and Office, I avoid Microsoft software
http://www.download-zone-free.com/vlcplayer/?OVRAW=Vlc%20media%20player&OVKEY=vlc%20media%20player&OVMTC=standard&OVADID=1567068522&OVKWID=13322542522

 

[BruceMyers48]

Thanks, VLC does work, But doesn't solve the problem with media player that should work . We pay allot of money for a OS and I think the bundled products that Microsoft put in should work with out all the hassles. Thanks

 

[BruceMyers48]

I'm finding out that any program that plays movies like, WinDVD, and Power dvd installed on your system will let Media player share the converters. I had a copy of power dvd that came with the dvd player and that installed on my system let media player share the converter.

 

[g-paw]

Thanks, VLC does work, But doesn't solve the problem with media player that should work . We pay allot of money for a OS and I think the bundled products that Microsoft put in should work with out all the hassles. Thanks

Agree the programs should work but fortunately there are a lot of alternatives. I figure if Microsoft or any other company is stupid and/or arrogant enough to want to alienate their customers, they're not getting my money. Glad VLC worked for you.