No Audio in DVD Playback

[Omega33]

Perhaps since I built my computer a few weeks ago, I have not been able to hear any audio when I'm playing my DVDs.

I have tried many different DVDs and many different players (WMP, Real, InterActual). NO AUDIO. There is one exception however....I can open the DVD in DVD Shrink and I can hear the audio when viewing the main movie folder. I don't know why this is the only way it worked for me...the movie still plays right off the disk....

My computer has never had any other audio problems, I play my games with sound, listen to mp3s, watch videos with sound......I'm listening an audio CD in the same drive that I can't hear DVD sound in right now as I type this! (I have only one DVD-ROM drive NEC DVD-R 16x)

I don't have a sound card, using onboard Realtek AC'97

Any suggestions would sure help...Thnx

[jman98]

Maybe you don't have an AC3 codec and that's why you can't play DVDs. Go to http://www.doom9.net, click on Downloads and then select Full Software Page. Scroll down for Filters and download and install AC3Filter 0.70b. I had a weird problem for encoding and installing this filter fixed it.

[SLK001]

Any software DVD player should install an AC3 codec. Perhaps your problem is that you haven't enabled the hardware for digital audio from the drive.

Go to CONTROL PANEL>SYSTEM>HARDWARE>DEVICE MANAGER>DVD/CD-ROM Drives

Click on the individual drives and select PROPERTIES>PROPERTIES, and click the box for "Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM drive."

[Omega33]

PROBLEM SOLVED

I can't believe its true....I forgot about the AC3 Codec! Thanks for the help!

BTW, yes...I did have digital audio enabled