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Windows Forum / Windows Media / Player / October 2004WMP 10 ceased working
Recently I updated some drivers badly in need of updating. Unfortunately, though I've been trying to track down exactly what drivers were updated, the only one I can definitively pin down is my Data Fax Voice Modem. At any rate, since the install (which I estimate was around the 3rd of this month), Media Player has been completely unable to play any sounds. It is the only program to have lost this ability. It will open and play files as usual, except it acts as if the volume is muted. (It's not). It's driving me nuts. I'm running WMP 10 (updated because of irritating antics of previous versions) on an 2 year old HP Pavilion laptop, OS WinXP. Any advice for fixing this, or, failing that, alternative players? I'm profoundly sick of WMP and if I can't get it running again in a few days would be MORE than happy to move on to a different player. Hi Ari, Don't know if it will help but I've found after using media players for some unknown reason the little systray Speaker icon (Control Panel - sounds - volume - check systray icon if you can't see it) sometimes shows full vol if I left click it to see its little slider thing, but if I right click the icon to open up the full audio panel then that will have the left hand vol slider right up but maybe one or two of the half dozen other sliders right down low. All I can suggest. I've noticed that problem too, so it was the fiirst thing I checked, and everything was as it should have been. It's odd - it's ONLY media player that has lost sound capability, all of my other prgrams are happily chirping along. Hi Ari. I've also found it's only MP that leaves the sliders set low, so, as you get exactly the same thing as well I've sent a note about it into Microsft's "Wish List" site. With a bit of luck they'll do a fix. But your problem is beyond me, hope you can get better help from someone else. Good luck. Your sound card driver is broken. WMP uses the DirectSound output of your sound card, which exposes a different set of abilities of your sound card. http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html#dsound should get you working regardless.  Signature(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time) See http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. Following up to your post with the resolution is good netiquette. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Now Playing: "Soft Machine" by "By Divine Right" in Windows Media Player 10. -- > Recently I updated some drivers badly in need of updating. Unfortunately, > though I've been trying to track down exactly what drivers were updated, [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > profoundly sick of WMP and if I can't get it running again in a few days > would be MORE than happy to move on to a different player. Volume controls. I tried a little experiment. It's not Media PLayer that drops the sliders. When you've got your MP working again try opening both MP and Realplayer and the right click full volume control set from the Sys Tray speaker icon, and shift them around the screen so you can see what all three are doing. Get MP to play anything and slide it's vol control left and right and the vol panel controls don't move, but if you move there vol or wav sliders MP's vol goes up and down. Stop MP but leave it on screen. Then have RP play something and do the same. Set Realplayer's to low and close Realplayer! Result low wav vol for Media Player! > Recently I updated some drivers badly in need of updating. Unfortunately, > though I've been trying to track down exactly what drivers were updated, the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > profoundly sick of WMP and if I can't get it running again in a few days > would be MORE than happy to move on to a different player. RP modifies the Wave mixer line directly (thus affecting other players), whereas WMP keeps its volume levels to itself. =\ -Zach Signature(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time) See http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. Following up to your post with the resolution is good netiquette. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Now Playing: "Circles" by "Mike Doughty" in WMP10. -- > Volume controls. I tried a little experiment. It's not Media PLayer that > drops the sliders. When you've got your MP working again try opening both [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >> profoundly sick of WMP and if I can't get it running again in a few days >> would be MORE than happy to move on to a different player. |
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