Windows Media Player Help

[Stevie Boy]

Right when i use the media player to play cd's its fine, but when i play dvds on it it get the pictures but no sound. Anyone got any ideas and yes i have turned turning it off then on again

 

[ali jenkins]

Have you looked to see if its on mute?

 

[Stevie Boy]

ys, the volume is set to high, it has worked beofre, just stopped working

 

[otk]

You could check your soundcard volume isn't muted or set to zero

 

[Nottseagull]

Does anyone have an answer which doesn't state "have you checked it's not on mute?" It obviously isn't he can play CDs !

 

[otk]

Try going..... Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > CD/DVD-Rom drives (and you could also check 'Sound, Video and Game Controllers' while you are at this dialogue.....)

and see if there's a problem there?

Other than that, check nothing's muted

 

[London Calling]

junping on this one, but can you record film dvd's in window media (windows xp)?

 

[vegster]

I use media player for cd's but have another program for DVD's......why don't you try downloading a freebie dvd player ? go to CNET and browse there are usually lots of free to download programs

 

[otk]

junping on this one, but can you record film dvd's in window media (windows xp)?

I don't know if this helps, but I bought an internal DVD-drive to burn DVDs and found that you need a seperate DVD authoring programme for films, unlike music, where you can use WMP11 for example to burn music discs...

Also, after reading this thread, I popped a DVD in my drive and tried to play it in WMP11 (XP OS) but nothing happened. Does WMP11 play DVDs I wonder?

 

[Wardy]

Sounds like a DRM issue. Firstly take a look at this page Playing DVDs in Windows Media Player

which may be able to help. Failing that download VLC player from here VLC media player - Overview