Media Player no longer plays dvd audio suggests?

[baritony]

Ihave Win XP and media player 9.0. I can no longer (for a while now actually) hear any audio from dvds that I play in the player. I can hear audio from music I play or little movie(porn) clips off the web just fine. So I believe the card is working just fine driver-wise. Its just not passing audio on dvd.
I have 2 dvd drives on my system... HP 200j internal and an external Sony drx 510l Usb 2.0 drive.

Suggests?

[Mike2000]

You posted this on Nov 02 and still no replies? I have the same problem. I normally use cyberlink powerdvd but I did just notice I don't get sound on Media player. I noticed it when I installed Media Player 9 and tried it on DVD for the first time. I uninstalled Cyberlink PowerDVD but still no success. I then went back to Media Player 8 but same result. Plays other audio fine. I never would have noticed but I tried to play the Extra video from the "Enter the Matrix" game and no audio. It may be in Divx format, but still I believe Media 9 should play Divx audio, and I know it is not playing DVD audio. Hope someone answers your question cause I'm stumped too. Need a codec or patch or something(?) It's no big deal for me since I like the Cyberlink player, but I did want to see that extra hour of "Matrix" video that was not in the movies.

Mike

[baritony]

Hey thanks for inquiring. Yea now that I think about it I may have had the problem start about the time in installed Windows Media Player 9, but I can be sure.

Sounds works perfect on everything else, just not on DVD under ANY dvd player

ANYONE???

[dcsos]

The last program you installed to PLAY DVD's is the one that WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER is using to play DVD's

this is in order to avoid liscensing fees that could've reached into the BILLIONS to play DVD files, WINDOWS opted to use the CHEAP WAY out

this means, out of the BOX:
WINDOWS XP and A DVD ROM drive do not a DVD PLAYBACK SYSTEM make!

You need a thrid party solution provider! WIN DVD, POWER DVD these guys pay the MPEG-2 committee fees and WMP scopps up the functionality...
ALL THIS SAID its probably the AC3 PLAYBACK FUNCTIONALITY that WIMP has dysfunctionally installed..
THE BEST SOLUTION is to experiment with REMOVING and RE-INSTALLING the power dvd software or installing some new CODEC bearing DVD player software
CINEPLAYER-(sonic)
MATROX CINEMASTER, WIN DVD OR XING AND LIGOS all have possibilities

[Mike2000]

In my case I did uninstall POWERDVD and reinstalled it. This didn't solve the problem though.

Mike

[dcsos]

Things to do list:

Try installing Windows Media Player 9 over 8 if you haven't already

Download a free utitlity DVD GENIE.. it has a page pertaaining to WINDOWS MEDAI PLAYBACK of DVD FILES said to have useful "tweaks"

Download and install the free WINDOWS MEDIA DEVELOPER TOOL WMA ENCODER 9 and WMA CODECs package NO 9..this might not do anything for DVD's but will outfit the WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 9 with more playback features