Well a couple of weeks ago I downloaded episode 59(might have been 58) of redvsblue and for some reason when it played in windows media player 9 it wouldnt play sound. So I download the quicktime version. It played fine and I thought nothing of it. After about a week I got another video off of another site. When I opened up windows media player there was no sound. I didnt care then either. But now a week later, I really REALLY nead sound. It has video but no sound. I have downloaded windows media player 10 and reinstalled my soundcard drivers. So what could be wrong? And no, I cant use winamp or quicktime this time, It isnt supported with winamp or quicktime.
It may be the meathod of encoding used in the media file. Try downloading some codecs and see if that helps. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Tsunami_Codec_Pack.htm
I am not wuite sure what you meant. 1. You meant the one file is messed up and I could use codecs on winamp to make it play? Codecs will do but I would rather use windows media player. 2. Windows media players codecs are messed up, in wich case how come it doesnt work with ENY sound file after a reinstall? Would i have to install all the codecs? Thanks.
Media players only come with so many codecs pre installed. And if the file you are trying to play is encoded using a different codec you wont be able to play it unless you install the relevent codec. You wont need a different player (although I do recomend, VLC player) just install the codec and Media player should play the file fine, thats if the problem lies with missing codecs. The links I provided install codecs independent of which media player you use.
When the file is attempting to play in windows media player you can select file->properties and it may tell you what codec is required to decode the audio stream from the file. Many times if you right click on a file and select properties you can see the same information. Some extentions for media are not associated with a specific encoding format. For example, AVI files are capable of storing audio and video data, but the video data could be encoded using the Windows Media format, MPEG, Divx, or one of several other formats. The audio can also be encoded using one of several formats.
