Playing .mp4 files.

Hello,

I am having a problem on my laptop.
When I run skype I can talk to other
people (I can hear them and speak
to them). However even when I exit
skype I watch .mp4 files with programs
such as quicktime, vaio movie story,
winamp, or windows media player
but none of these applications can
play the sound. I don't know what's
wrong: I only hear sound through
skype. Each volume indicator in
both the applications and on the
start menubar the volume seems
fine. I don't know why it is that
I can only hear audio with skype
and no other application.

Any help much appreciated,

Regards,

John Goche

 

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> Hello,
>
> I am having a problem on my laptop.
> When I run skype I can talk to other
> people (I can hear them and speak
> to them). However even when I exit
> skype I watch .mp4 files with programs
> such as quicktime, vaio movie story,
> winamp, or windows media player
> but none of these applications can
> play the sound. I don't know what's
> wrong: I only hear sound through
> skype. Each volume indicator in
> both the applications and on the
> start menubar the volume seems
> fine. I don't know why it is that
> I can only hear audio with skype
> and no other application.
>
> Any help much appreciated,
>
> Regards,
>
> John Goche<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

You probably don't have the audio codec (decoder) or it's improperly
installed. Google for Vista Codec Pack if you are running Vista 32-bit or
K-Lite Codec Pack 64-bit 2.6.3 (avoid 2.6.2, it had problems with audio
decoding) for Vista 64-bit.

Or get an alternative media players like VLM or GOM which come with internal
codecs to decode video and audio.