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No audio playing DVD movies (by 3 users)

By Odud - usenet poster


I have finished building my current system, and everything is in working
order... Except I can't get audio when playing DVD movies in the DVD
drive. All other audio works fine -- I can play audio CD's, Mp3's, AVI
and MPEG files with sound, etc., and video on DVD movies is fine, but no
audio. Any idea what the problem is? Do I need to install a special
audio codec that's missing? Do I need to attach digital audio on the
DVD drive (This poses a problem because the audio is on the mobo and
there's no digital audio connector that I can find, unless that's what
the AUX-IN connector is for)?

Here is my setup:

Mobo/chipset: Epox EP-8NPA7I, nForce4 4X
Onboard Audio: ALC655, AC97-compliant
CPU: AMD Sempron
DVD drive: Plextor PX-740A
OS: Windows XP Home SP2 OEM
Media Players installed: WMP-9, Nero Media Player OEM

Thanks ahead,

Dave

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2 Other Users Have The Same Problem

Comment by jumps zest, posted on Apr 04, 2008

With CD, mp3, my Sony DVD works well, producing audio output, but when I play DVD, the video plays, but no audio. This happens when both played using Nero and Windows. Could my computer be lacking an Audio Codec? what audio codec do I have to install?

Specifics of my Computer:
Operating System: Windows XP
MotherBoard: Asus P5V800
Audio P5V800: ADI AD1986A high definition audio 6-channel CODEC

Please help. thanks

Mike

Comment by Guest, posted on Dec 04, 2007

panasonic combo dvd-vhs player. ideo reat-----no audio!!!!!!!

Best Solution
posted on May 28, 2006
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Horner

Horner - usenet poster

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I had the same problem, this is how I fixed it.

In Windows Media player click Tools - DVD - Advanced - Output, in that drop
down menu select "Stereo."

Before I did this, everything else worked fine like you except DVD audio.
For some reason Nero had no problems playing DVD's so I knew it had
something to do with Windows Media Player.

Hope this helps.

--
WooHoo2You

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Solution #2
posted on May 28, 2006
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kioner

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Hello Dave,

If it is a problem of lacking an audio codec, your application should tell
you about it. Maybe CSS or CSS2 (copy protection).

Only if you had problems getting digital sound modes like Dolby Digital to
work. The two wires are signal and ground. Both/all channels are
transmitted digitally to be decoded e.g. by a 5.1 Soundsystem.

AC97 usually doesn't have an internal digital input connector, so the
digital output of your DVD drive will have to wait for further hardware
upgrades. E.g. some soundcard with a digital input on the card and a
digital output jack to be connected with a 3.1/5.1 soundsystem.

AUX-IN is "the same procedure" as CD-IN. Three wires for left, right and
ground. It can be used for TV-cards with internal stereo output to be
connected internally. When I have a drive and a burner installed, the
CD/DVD-drive usually goes to CD-IN, the CD/DVD-burner to AUX-IN.

Your problem sounds to me like some copy protection since everything seems
to work fine with usually unprotected sources. To verify this, get some
DVD-Authoring software installed and make a DVD from one of your MPEGs with
sound. Guess that's the shortest way to narrow down the problem.

I'm running Linux, so sorry I can't recommend a DVD-authoring tool known to
work on Windows "out of the box" for testing.

Greetings
Tarper

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