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by coors

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I have a friend of mine who went to play a DVD movie and only got a picture and no sound. When he puts a regular music CD into the DVD drive he the sound works just fine. The audio cable is connected between the DVD ROM drive and the Sound Card. Any ideas on what may be going on?

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by ann777

Go to Control Panel --> Sound and multimedia. Make sure everything is setup there and properly configured. Go to the volume speaker on the taskbar... make sure the sound level is high and nothing is muted. Make sure that the output is properly configured and the speakers have not been disconnected.

by coors

The OS is W98. Unfortunately Anna your suggestions did not work and we still cannot get sound to play from the DVD. I currently have my friend trying a different DVD that is older. Thank you for taking the time to try to answer the question.

by bigfootduck

Might be that you need to download the newest drivers for your dvd player to function properly as its supposed to, if that doesnt work i would try uninstalling the dvd player itself and then install it again, make sure u have the newest drivers, forsome reason my brothers sound didn't work on his dvd player. also try getting a different dvd playing program, try windvd or playdvd they are both good

by thechas

I suggest a sound card driver update.
Or, a newer more powerful sound card.

The audio form DVDs is procerssed from the digital data, and DOES not go through the audio connector on the drive.
In fact, most media players use the digital data off the IDE bus instead of the audio signal from the drive for CDs.

Then, check your mixer settings, and make sure that wave and software synth are enabled.

Finally, check the settings for the DVD player software, and verify what type of audio modeis enabled.

Chas

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