I have been trying to stream video from a website. The video was ok but there
was no sound.
I contacted the website operator and they e-mailed me the WMV file. Again
when I played it with WMP11 the was video and no sound.
I took the file and passed it through windows movie maker. It created a WMV
file and the audio played ok!
It seems the file they sent me was coded using codec 9 and the file I
created used codec 9.2.
Question - why did the latest version of WMP 11 not playback a file with
codec 9?

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:53:00 -0700, Lost in Toronto
<LostinToronto@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have been trying to stream video from a website. The video was ok but there
>was no sound.
>I contacted the website operator and they e-mailed me the WMV file. Again
>when I played it with WMP11 the was video and no sound.
>I took the file and passed it through windows movie maker. It created a WMV
>file and the audio played ok!
>It seems the file they sent me was coded using codec 9 and the file I
>created used codec 9.2.
>Question - why did the latest version of WMP 11 not playback a file with
>codec 9?


It's possible you have codec download turned off (though that should
also affect MovieMaker since they should share the codecs)

Go to Now Playing, click the small dropdown arrow, choose More Options
then the Player tab. Is "Download codecs automatically" ticked or
unticked ?

If it's unticked, make sure WMP can go to the internet. Tick the
"Connect to the internet (overrides other commands)" box.

All the WMV codecs are on MS' codec servers, and they should
automatically download and install when they're first required in use.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
------------------------------------------------
Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Neil the story has advanced since yesterday.

It would seem that the problem was possibly caused by ac3filter.ax. I was
using version 1.1. When I deleted it everything came good. I have another
post with more information.

Thanks

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:53:00 -0700, Lost in Toronto
> <LostinToronto@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I have been trying to stream video from a website. The video was ok but there
> >was no sound.
> >I contacted the website operator and they e-mailed me the WMV file. Again
> >when I played it with WMP11 the was video and no sound.
> >I took the file and passed it through windows movie maker. It created a WMV
> >file and the audio played ok!
> >It seems the file they sent me was coded using codec 9 and the file I
> >created used codec 9.2.
> >Question - why did the latest version of WMP 11 not playback a file with
> >codec 9?
>
>
> It's possible you have codec download turned off (though that should
> also affect MovieMaker since they should share the codecs)
>
> Go to Now Playing, click the small dropdown arrow, choose More Options
> then the Player tab. Is "Download codecs automatically" ticked or
> unticked ?
>
> If it's unticked, make sure WMP can go to the internet. Tick the
> "Connect to the internet (overrides other commands)" box.
>
> All the WMV codecs are on MS' codec servers, and they should
> automatically download and install when they're first required in use.
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
>

Neil the story has advanced since yesterday.

It would seem that the problem was possibly caused by ac3filter.ax. I was
using version 1.1. When I deleted it everything came good. I have another
post with more information.

Thanks

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:53:00 -0700, Lost in Toronto
> <LostinToronto@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I have been trying to stream video from a website. The video was ok but there
> >was no sound.
> >I contacted the website operator and they e-mailed me the WMV file. Again
> >when I played it with WMP11 the was video and no sound.
> >I took the file and passed it through windows movie maker. It created a WMV
> >file and the audio played ok!
> >It seems the file they sent me was coded using codec 9 and the file I
> >created used codec 9.2.
> >Question - why did the latest version of WMP 11 not playback a file with
> >codec 9?
>
>
> It's possible you have codec download turned off (though that should
> also affect MovieMaker since they should share the codecs)
>
> Go to Now Playing, click the small dropdown arrow, choose More Options
> then the Player tab. Is "Download codecs automatically" ticked or
> unticked ?
>
> If it's unticked, make sure WMP can go to the internet. Tick the
> "Connect to the internet (overrides other commands)" box.
>
> All the WMV codecs are on MS' codec servers, and they should
> automatically download and install when they're first required in use.
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
>