No audio with WMP 11

I'm running XP SP3 with WMP 11. Everything was working fine earlier, but I
noticed today that I suddenly have no audio at all from it. Nada! No matter
what kinds of files I try to play, even .WAV. Other players (Real Player for
example) that will play files associated with WMP have no problems with audio.
Wave clips play when I open and close XP with no problem. Volume is up on WMP
and the sound isn't muted. Everything else that's supposed to produce sound
does. WMP doesn't, although it handles video as usual. DirectX version is
9.0c. XP updates are current.

Any ideas about what could be wrong?

Larc

 

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:30:16 -0400, I wrote:

| I'm running XP SP3 with WMP 11. Everything was working fine earlier, but I
| noticed today that I suddenly have no audio at all from it. Nada! No matter
| what kinds of files I try to play, even .WAV. Other players (Real Player for
| example) that will play files associated with WMP have no problems with audio.
| Wave clips play when I open and close XP with no problem. Volume is up on WMP
| and the sound isn't muted. Everything else that's supposed to produce sound
| does. WMP doesn't, although it handles video as usual. DirectX version is
| 9.0c. XP updates are current.
|
| Any ideas about what could be wrong?

Problem solved! For some mysterious reason, WMP had decided to switch its
output to the ATI Function Driver for High Definition Audio installed with a
recent video driver rather than the default sound card. When I disabled the ATI
audio driver, WMP audio output reverted to the sound card.

Is there any way to specify where the WMP output goes? If it's going to start
latching onto things other than the chosen default audio device, there should be
some way of controlling it other than by disabling what it's outputting to. It
may take a notion to grab onto something I don't want to disable.

Larc

 

Goto "Tools" menu then "options" and then "devices". Under devices click
Speakers and properties. In the drop down menu select your output device
instead of disabling it from device manager.
Hope it helps. Good Luck!