DVD sound missing.Why?

[null2006]

Yes, check the vendor's web site for updated drivers.

 

[JohnO]

What about sound from regular CDs? If that's gone too, be sure you connected
the audio cable between the drive to the sound card.

-John O

 

[Alon Brodski]

Hello!

I have a wierd problem.
I have an older system (2000),P III 800 VIA Apollo Pro 133 and I have Win
XP.
So I recently bought LG DVD-ROM drive and it works fine,just no sound ONLY
when I try to play DVD discs on it.But,say,when I try to play MP3's,it plays
them fine.How come?
I use Windows Media Player 10.
BTW,I kinda installed the driver from a bundle CD that came with a drive,but
in driver's properties it shows Microsoft 2001.
May be should also get a newer driver or problems somewhere else?

Al

 

[Alon Brodski]

Regular CDs play fine!

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You must note that the audio cable is not required when the audio is played in
"digital mode".

 

[JohnO]

Correct. But, with that older machine it was one variable that was easily
eliminated.

 

[JohnO]

I didn't mean to imply that at all! Gotta start with the simple stuff,
that's the first troubeshooting step when I can't see into your computer
myself.

But anyway, Yves is correct, you don't really need one these days. Lots of
computers don't have them at all. I was taking an angle that maybe you'd get
audio if it was there, even if the root cause of the problem is a driver or
the DVD app. I guess that angle didn't pan out.

-John O

 

[Alon Brodski]

I'm not THAT stupid NOT to connect an audio cable!

 

[Alon Brodski]

Hey!

I simply installed XP codec 2.0.1. and now I do have sound.
Though there's another issue...The picture is too dark.Even nVIDIA software
brightness control doesn't have any effect on it.
And Win Media player brightness control don't move from 0 position...