re: no sound in Win Media Player
Sunday, August 24, 2003 at 11:24 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by WildAngel
(1 messages posted)
Carrie, I run win98 and was duped into upgrading to wmp9. There is a "small" sentence
that I read on Microsoft's troubleshooting page when I wanted to know why I could
not watch my videos in full screen mode anymore. The sentence read: Full screen
mode is an option for XP users only! I have been trying to find a way for months
to tweak the registry to enable it to play in full screen in win98 anyway (I believe
the only way it can be done is to change the values of the keys.) I tried uninstalling
wmp9 and reinstalled wmp7.1, but when I uninstalled wmp9, it took some necessary
files with it (and changed the registry) and now my old wmp won't recognize ANY file
extensions! It gives me the error message "registry error". Also, now it won't
play unless I drag and drop. I installed Nimo Codecs for Windows so at least now
there is sound, (maybe not today, though..it is so unstable) but it is so messed,
I had to download Ultraplayer as a replacement! Works fine except I have to select
each video one at a time to play in full screen, whereas my old faithful wmp7.1 played
all my vids without my having to adjust it each time! I figure it's just another
Bill Gates trick to "coerce" people into buying XP!!!! They could have at least
kissed us first!!!!! If you want me to find where I downloaded Nimo codecs, email
me and I will be glad to help more! PS...If anyone out there can help with the "twek98"
idea to run in full screen...PLEASE let me know!!! Thanks all you lovely people!!!
WildAngel
On Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 6:48 am, Carrie wrote:
>
>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
>
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