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reposting this with corrected spacing Monday, April 14, 2003 at 8:06 am Posted by Carrie (14 messages posted) Once again I forgot to check to make sure the spacing was okay. I just assume it will be posted as I wrote it. The box that says "to preserve spacing" says not to check it unless you really need it". Apparently without it, the message all runs together with no paragraphs and breaks? Why not make spacing the way it was written the DEFAULT on the board? Like other boards seem to do? I'm going to respace it and check the box this time and hope it comes out okay.... ------------------------------------------------- no sound in Win Media Player Monday, April 14, 2003 at 7:49 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Carrie [find other messages by Carrie] I put this in SEARCH (here) and came up with many posts about it, but they seemed to be more WIN 2000 and up, and no clear (or any) answers. I have WMP9 installed, and it works fine, except there's no sound. When I play online clips I usually see them but no sound. Everything I can find is turned up. When I try playing CDs from the D drive, (or audio files I have saved) error boxes come up saying there is no sound card, or another program is using it. I've tried older versions of WMP, and the same thing. Someone suggested I run tests for the directX and the sound test failed. But I never learned what to do to fix it. And I have sound, everything else (sound) works, and other player programs do. Just not with WMP. I have Real Player, which plays audio files but not the CDs. It says it has to have an update or plugin, and will contact their homepage to get it. Then says what I need isn't available. I also have used WinAmp, which works with my sound files AND CDs, but isn't an option for clicking on websites (usually only RealAudio, WMP or one of them is). This started because I was given a link to webcasts of news from around the world. It said Real Audio player or WMP was required. At the time I was using WinAmp (which seemed to work for my audio files and CDs). Right now Real Audio plays the sound files, and the "generic" (I think it came with WIN) CD PLAYER (which is in ENTERTAINMENT) plays the CDs. I've tried taking out and changing and changing the settings (default) to, and installing older models. I have WIN 98 SE (hp Brio). I'm sure I had both WMP and Real Player in at one time. In the 2 years I've had this computer I've reinstalled WIN 98 SE two different times. What I'd like is a player that I can use for everything. Audio files, CDs and webcasts/ videos I might find online to click on and open. I like the new WMP, how you can open it to full screen, and the visuals. But, if I could get Real Player to work for everything (or anything else for that matter) I could use that. Also, I'd like to find out why WMP (any version of it) says there's an error with the sound. No soundcard or another program is using it. I've tried taking everything out BUT the WMP and it still says this. Only the little generic WIN CD PLAYER was in. I don't want to take that out, because it's sometimes the only program that I can play CDs with. And I might have to reinstall WIN again to get it back. I also have a cd burner (hp) and software that came with that (RECORD NOW) and NERO (I downloaded but haven't figure out, so don't use). And CDex I've been using to record cassette tapes onto the computer and then making CDs from them. How do I find out what, if anything is clashing, or using whatever WMP is supposed to use? Thanks, Carrie [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no sound in Win Media Player Monday, April 14, 2003 at 12:34 pm Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted) Just something to try Carrie. Disable Real Player from within 'MSCONFIG'. It has several aliases such as 'RNADMIN', 'TLKBELL' or 'RNSYSTEM'. Actually uninstalling it may solve your problem! Real Player Sucks Yep it Does JmC [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no sound in Win Media Player Monday, April 14, 2003 at 2:41 pm Posted by Carrie (14 messages posted) Okay, I'll try. But I didn't have Real Player in (and hadn't) when this started (error message/no sound in WMP) I don't like Real Player either. But, I would like something that comes up for watching online news, etc. I had WinAmp which worked with my audio files and CDs, but not from websites. Oh, someone elsewhere suggested I test the sound in the DirectX, using DXDIAG (I never heard of this before) What it basically said: Sound: No driver problems TEST: direct sound test results FAILURE at Step 3 (direct sound create) HRESULT=0x80004005 generic failure. VIDEO The file i81xdw4xdrv is uncertified (not tested by MSN hd quality labs- and I could maybe find one that is...) DIRECT DRAW TEST ... successful 3D rendering.... successful DIRECT MUSIC failure at step 6 activaor the 1direct music port (I can't read my own notes) HRESULT= 0x80004005 generic failure. But, nobody ever told me what, if anything I could do to fix this. I'll try what you said. I'm thinking one little file or something is in the way, and WMP thinks something else is using it. Maybe from some of the cd burning software? hp RECORD NOW, NERO, CEex? Where is the place to test and see if anything is conflicting? I have seen this somewhere, but can't remember where. ~ Carrie On Monday, April 14, 2003 at 12:34 pm, JmC wrote: > > > > > > >Just something to try Carrie. Disable Real Player from within 'MSCONFIG'. It has >several aliases such as 'RNADMIN', 'TLKBELL' or 'RNSYSTEM'. Actually uninstalling >it may solve your problem! > >Real >Player Sucks > >Yep >it Does > > > JmC > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no sound in Win Media Player Monday, April 14, 2003 at 3:38 pm Posted by Joe (12 messages posted) 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. On Monday, April 14, 2003 at 7:49 am, Carrie wrote: > I put this in SEARCH (here) and came up with many posts about it, but they seemed >to be more WIN 2000 and up, and no clear (or any) answers. > > I have WMP9 installed, and it works fine, except there's no sound. When I play online >clips I usually see them but no sound. Everything I can find is turned up. > > When I try playing CDs from the D drive, (or audio files I have saved) error boxes >come up saying there is no sound card, or another program is using it. > > I've tried older versions of WMP, and the same thing. > > Someone suggested I run tests for the directX and the sound test failed. But I >never learned what to do to fix it. And I have sound, everything else (sound) works, >and other player programs do. Just not with WMP. > > I have Real Player, which plays audio files but not the CDs. It says it has to >have an update or plugin, and will contact their homepage to get it. Then says what >I need isn't available. > > I also have used WinAmp, which works with my sound files AND CDs, but isn't an >option for clicking on websites (usually only RealAudio, WMP or one of them is). > > This started because I was given a link to webcasts of news from around the world. >It said Real Audio player or WMP was required. At the time I was using WinAmp (which >seemed to work for my audio files and CDs). > > Right now Real Audio plays the sound files, and the "generic" (I think it came >with WIN) CD PLAYER (which is in ENTERTAINMENT) plays the CDs. > > I've tried taking out and changing and changing the settings (default) to, and >installing older models. > > I have WIN 98 SE (hp Brio). I'm sure I had both WMP and Real Player in at one time. >In the 2 years I've had this computer I've reinstalled WIN 98 SE two different times. > > What I'd like is a player that I can use for everything. Audio files, CDs and webcasts/ >videos I might find online to click on and open. > > I like the new WMP, how you can open it to full screen, and the visuals. > > But, if I could get Real Player to work for everything (or anything else for >that matter) I could use that. > > Also, I'd like to find out why WMP (any version of it) says there's an error with >the sound. No soundcard or another program is using it. > > I've tried taking everything out BUT the WMP and it still says this. Only the >little generic WIN CD PLAYER was in. I don't want to take that out, because it's >sometimes the only program that I can play CDs with. And I might have to reinstall >WIN again to get it back. > > I also have a cd burner (hp) and software that came with that (RECORD NOW) and >NERO (I downloaded but haven't figure out, so don't use). And CDex I've been using >to record cassette tapes onto the computer and then making CDs from them. > > How do I find out what, if anything is clashing, or using whatever WMP is supposed >to use? > > Thanks, > Carrie > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no sound in Win Media Player Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 6:48 am 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: no sound in Win Media Player Sunday, August 24, 2003 at 11:24 am 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum