No errors, no problems, just no sound!

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Hi,

for a while now, i can't hear the sounds on low-bit
videos. By that I mean not the 300kbs vids, which wmp
works fine, but 56k vids, which i only see the pictures
and no sound. I changes my soundcard, motherboard, no
help. I reinstalled windows media player, nothing... not
even a known virus.

I'm thinking about reinstalling windows, but first i
thought i could get help here,

thank you guys in advance.
 
A lot of low - bit videos that you download.........are specificaly made for
56k dial up modem users. The smaller you can make those vids, the easier it
will be for 56ker's to download them. And as such, many of those vids are
encoded with NO SOUND to produce an even smaller file.

The fact that you can play other videos "sounds" at higher quality leads me
to believe one of two things is going on:

1) As mentioned before, the low quality vids generaly don't have sound to
save filesize

2) They are using some ancient and bizzare sound codec to encode the
sound......and you don't have it installed on your PC.


Buying a brand new computer or reinstalling windows or motherboards
etc..etc...is NOT going to help you one bit. Don't waste your time.
 
thanks billy, but the problem is i have many old videos
which i could view them on this same computer a few month
ago, but now all of a sudden i can't. the strange thing
is it's just my computer which can't play these
files,other systems, old or new, play these just fine?
 
Ok then........if you could SEE them and HEAR them a few months ago on the
same Computer you are using now..........but now you can't hear the sound,
then chances are you don't have the proper audio codec installed to hear it.

Right click on one of the files not working.........then look in
"properties", then look under the "summary" tab. It should tell you Audio
and Video Codecs used.

If Audio says "unknown".........then you know! You don't have the proper
codec installed for that audio stream.

It could be that it got deleted from your system somehow when uninstalled
software.......reinstalled software, looked at windows wrong.....cussed Bill
Gates under your breath????????

Who knows how it happens, but that's my bet.

I still say do not reinstall windows. That's a bit extreme and very likely,
not needed.
 
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