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Posted by John. on 03/21/07 10:28
"the dog from that film you saw" <dsb@removethisportionbtinternet.com> wrote
in message news:56ceqmF28gsfcU1@mid.individual.net...
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> "John." <john.hewittTWENTY@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:XsCdnTgFc4uun5zbnZ2dnUVZ8qaqnZ2d@bt.com...
>>A friend of mine recently went to New York (we're in the UK) and while out
>> shopping bought proper, legal, commercial DVDs of "Pirates of the
>> Caribbean"
>> and "9/11", which, of course, are in NTSC format.
>>
>> Got them back to the UK and her son watched both movies on his laptop (an
>> Acer Aspire 3000) perfectly OK, using Windows Media Player.
>> Unfortunately,
>> his sister decided to do some "housekeeping" on the laptop and has
>> deleted
>> something that she perhaps shouldn't have because they are now having
>> problems with sound, ie, none at all.
>>
>> I re-installed the audio drivers for them and now the laptop has got
>> *most*
>> sound capability back, ie, all the normal Windows beeps and sounds, and
>> it
>> will play audio CDs OK. However, the DVDs mentioned above are not playing
>> any audio at all - video great, but no audio.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
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> If all else fails use vlcplayer - http://www.videolan.org/vlc
Thanks for that Gareth, looks good.
John.
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