CD-ROMS & DVD Problems/sony dvd

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Expert: Roy Bonner - 11/2/2006


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i installed a sony dvd internal drive. it will play cd music fine but when i play a dvd movie there is no sound. i have tried to play in Nero, windows media player, and PC friendly. none have sound in the movie all have sound in music. would this be a problem with my sound card needing to be upgraded?

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Hi Barry,
No, this is nothing to do with your sound card, it's just that where CD audio is hardwired direct to the sound card, DVD audio is stored in a compressed format, in fact often in several formats, and if you select the wrong format for playback it won't be decoded properly so you won't get sound. First make sure your system is playing mp3 files correctly, if so it should be playing DVDs too, so check what audio format your players are trying to extract.

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Roy

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