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Help pls: new laptop - no sound?
travel_freak
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Hi,
My father has just bought a new laptop - an Acer.
We've put in a DVD and whilst it plays pictures there is no sound.
An error message keeps coming up saying:
"Audio format is not supported by the current application. Please launch %s in MCE."
Please does anyone know what this means - how we can sort the problem out and get the sound working?
Many thanks in advance.
My father has just bought a new laptop - an Acer.
We've put in a DVD and whilst it plays pictures there is no sound.
An error message keeps coming up saying:
"Audio format is not supported by the current application. Please launch %s in MCE."
Please does anyone know what this means - how we can sort the problem out and get the sound working?
Many thanks in advance.
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Comments
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Try downloading VLC and use this to play DVDs
Download link: http://www.videolan.org/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc/0.9.8a/win32/vlc-0.9.8a-win32.exe0 -
Hello please download and install http://www.filehippo.com/download_klite_codec_pack/
It contains codecs which will hopefully fix the problem.
If its still not working use this to play movies http://www.filehippo.com/download_vlc/0 -
Have you tried an ordinary CD?
It could have something to do with the Codecs relating to the DVD.0 -
Wouldn't bother with the codecs when VLC is a great, lightweight player which can play pretty much anything you throw at it... Why overcomplicate things...0
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Download VLC, Vista won't have any DVD playback codecs as standard due to licencing and copyright issues; XP doesn't play DVD straight out of the box either.0
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Many thanks everyone. I'll follow the suggestions and hopefully this will do the trick.
Kind regards,0
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