Windows Media problem

[LisaB]

Windows Media is not playing the voice now on my dvds. I can hear the background music, and it even plays the voice on the trailers and previews, but once the movie starts, there is no voice.

Any clues on how to go about fixing this? Or what could have caused this problem?
I can play some dvds (like a sitcom dvd I have....the voice is fine.) But I've even put in a movie that I"ve watched on my computer not too long ago...now there is no voice.

I have Media Player 11 and Vista.

Help. :scratch

[Biblecat2]

Try to reinstall Media Player 11. The software could be corrupt. :idunno

[frodo82801]

The codecs get messed up from time to time. Re-installing generally fixes the problem.

[Buzzardhut]

check media player's audio settings for playing DVD's

[LisaB]

Thanks for the advice, peoples! :wave

Buzzard: I've done that and I was able to get that one movie I had previously watched to play the voice. There were 3 English (US) settings. When I chose the 2nd setting, the voice started to play. Weird...since I never had to do that the first time I watched it. :idunno

But the 2 other movies I tried to watch, only has one English setting, so unfortunately, I couldn't get them to play the voice.

I think I'll probably have to re-install as frodo and biblecat suggested.

[matheteou]

Did your computer come with a DVD burner? If it did, you probably got WinDVD (or something like it) on a separate CD/DVD or it maybe listed in your software setup folder (or in Start->Programs). If you have that, install it and ignore Media Failure.

[Buzzardhut]

Cliprex DVD Player Professional (http://www.cliprex.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=docclick&Itemid=1&bid=21&limitstart=0&limit=20)

Videolan (http://www.videolan.org/mirror.html?mirror=http://mirrors.optralan.com/videolan/&file=vlc/0.8.6d/win32/vlc-0.8.6d-win32.exe) will play anything, has lots of good codecs too that you might need for other files, more simple and cleaner than windows media player

[Pacman]

^^^ Seconded

VLC is awesome. It just plays everything.

[LisaB]

I just downloaded videolan and it's doing exactly the same thing. It won't play audio (voices only) during the movie.

I don't get it. :scratch

[ghetto guy]

check the volume on your computer. See if you can play music or something else with sound