No Sound on DVD's

[shamgar03]

I have 2 DVD-ROM drives, one is a DVD - RW DL and the other is like just a 16x DVD-Rom. For some reason when I watch DVD movies the sound wont work. I am using windows media player, is it possible that doesnt have software decoders? I have a Audigy 2 sound card, so that is supposed to have a DVD decoder on it that should solve my problem. I have the analog sound cable connected on one and it doesnt make a difference, do I need to attach another wire to my sound card?

 

[arbytech]

Have you tried using whatever DVD player software came with one of the drives? Possibly something like WinDVD? I have had problems in the past with WMP where the DVD drive is setup properly (including the cable to the soundcard) but the playback doesn't work quite right.

 

[LTC8K6]

You don't usually need the cables anymore these days. It's been a while since I owned a computer with audio cables from the CD or DVD drives. I usually just use the digital audio option where the audio is sent over the IDE cable.

 

[huesmann]

Are you able to play audio CDs in these drives?

 

[cygan]

Try using some other DVD player like arbytech mentioned. It should help you, else just check the speaker settings throgh the DVD player pane(stereo, quadro, 5.1 etc.) Let me know

 

[monzie]

Try installing AC3Filter.

 

[shamgar03]

I installed winDVD which came with my DVD-Rom and now it is working fine. I am guessing that drivers for decoding DVD sound just don't come with windows media. Thanks for the help guys.