Playing .mp4 files.

[John Goche]

Hello,

I am having a problem on my laptop.
When I run skype I can talk to other
people (I can hear them and speak
to them). However even when I exit
skype I watch .mp4 files with programs
such as quicktime, vaio movie story,
winamp, or windows media player
but none of these applications can
play the sound. I don't know what's
wrong: I only hear sound through
skype. Each volume indicator in
both the applications and on the
start menubar the volume seems
fine. I don't know why it is that
I can only hear audio with skype
and no other application.

Any help much appreciated,

Regards,

John Goche

 

[Tae Song]

Hello,

I am having a problem on my laptop.
When I run skype I can talk to other
people (I can hear them and speak
to them). However even when I exit
skype I watch .mp4 files with programs
such as quicktime, vaio movie story,
winamp, or windows media player
but none of these applications can
play the sound. I don't know what's
wrong: I only hear sound through
skype. Each volume indicator in
both the applications and on the
start menubar the volume seems
fine. I don't know why it is that
I can only hear audio with skype
and no other application.

Any help much appreciated,

Regards,

John Goche

You probably don't have the audio codec (decoder) or it's improperly
installed. Google for Vista Codec Pack if you are running Vista 32-bit or
K-Lite Codec Pack 64-bit 2.6.3 (avoid 2.6.2, it had problems with audio
decoding) for Vista 64-bit.

Or get an alternative media players like VLM or GOM which come with internal
codecs to decode video and audio.