re: no sound in Win Media Player
Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 6:48 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Carrie
(14 messages posted)
I have already tried that. I got an older version of it.
Still no sound.
Even though it says on the website with the "news around the world" that the latest
versions of WMP or RA are required and gives download links.
Last night someone suggested downloading DirectX8 (said there is 9 but he had the
same problem with WMP and used 8 and it worked). Apparently, according to the test
results I had DirectX 6. I never even knew I had DirectX-anything before that.
So, I downloaded DirectX8 and I had WMP9 and DX8
I thought it was the solution. It played audio files and CDs from the D drive.
I tried it on the website with the news from all over the world, and it brought
up the video and not audio. I mainly tried it on USA sites, to make sure it wasn't
because of a foreign country.
On one of them the same error message came up (that had with the CDs before the
DirectX upgrade) that WMP can't play this file because there's a problem with th
esound device, maybe being used by something else of not functioning properly.
I'm thinking maybe I should download DirectX9. It says on it once it's installed
you can't take it out. But it will probably go back to 8 if it makes something worse.
It's not really that big a deal, my audio files and CDs are playing.
I guess, mainly I'd like to have it work just to have it work.
Thanks,
~ Carrie
On Monday, April 14, 2003 at 3:38 pm, Joe wrote:
>Had the same problem when I upgraded to WMP9. I went back to the old version and
>the sound came back. I'm content to use the older version. I suggest you back out
>v9 again. BTW, I also use Winamp and it works with websites. Maybe you need to
>review Winamp setup. I suggest not using the most current version of Winamp though
>as it has a few bugs. They have both old and new versions to download on thier
website.
> Last suggestion, try email Microsoft tech support. You will have to register with
>them (.net registration) but they should be able to resolve whatever problem you
>are having.
>
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