{"id":1161,"date":"2007-08-10T02:10:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T10:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/10\/no-audio-when-streaming-video-through-windows-media-player\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T04:00:17","slug":"no-audio-when-streaming-video-through-windows-media-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/10\/no-audio-when-streaming-video-through-windows-media-player\/","title":{"rendered":"No Audio When Streaming Video Through Windows Media Player"},"content":{"rendered":"

So for the longest time, I’ve been having problem with the audio when I streamed videos from particular sites. At first I thought it was just Firefox, but IE7 had had the same problem. CNN, MSNBC, and Yahoo! (just to name a few) all had problems with the audio. However, when playing videos off my gallery that used WMP (e.g. Detective Conan – Childhood Ending<\/a>), WMP would play the audio fine, so I had initially eliminated WMP from the list of possible culprits for the problem. It was starting to get annoying as whenever I wanted to listen to a news report on CNN or MSNBC, I would have to find it on YouTube.<\/p>\n

Anyway today, when I was trying to watch a trailer on Yahoo!: Facing Windows (Finestra di fronte, La)<\/a>, I was pissed that there was once again no sound coming from the video. The reason I was watching this trailer in the first place was that the foreign title La Finestra di fronte<\/em> is actually the name of one of my favorite songs that I’ve listened to repeatedly and without the audio, I was definitely not enjoying it one bit. The song’s actually called Gocce di memoria<\/a> by Giorgia, but the they also have a version with no lyrics and played by the National Symphonia Orchestra just titled Finestra di fronte<\/em> (wasn’t able to find it on YouTube). If you’re interested, Amazon.com has the soundtrack available: La finestra di fronte (Facing Windows) Soundtrack<\/a>. Anyway, it turns out this was the movie the song was used in and actually the the soundtrack that I have.<\/p>\n

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\n(enlarge image<\/a>)<\/p>\n

So I started searching online to find out what could possibly be causing this problem. I quickly found this thread: Multimedia: No audio when streaming video<\/a><\/p>\n

This was exactly the problem I was having and turns out the solution was as simple as changing a 1 to a 0.<\/p>\n

Here are the instructions provided by xray88:<\/p>\n

Make this registry change and I’m pretty sure it will fix your problem. If it doesn’t work, you can always change it back. It’ll work. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Go to the following registry folder:<\/p>\n

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\MediaPlayer\\
\n    NodeCLSIDs\\{95037DA1-6ED9-4B27-8CFF-9AD3DFB0B2F2}]<\/p>\n

Double click on “Auto Insert” on the right side of the box.<\/p>\n

Change the Value from “1” to “0” and click OK.<\/p>\n

You should be set.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t even have to restart either of my browsers and audio immediately started playing. It turns out that when “Auto Insert” is enabled, WMP has problems streaming content with mono audio. I have no idea what the “Auto Insert” thing does, but disabling it definitely got my streaming audio to start working again.<\/p>\n

According to cwwl, there is another way to fix this without messing with your registry (for those who are scared to screw something up):<\/p>\n

First Thanks to xray88 for the registry change it works.<\/p>\n

If you do not want to change the registry do this. The registry fix is the best solution but the fix below will work for the faint at heart.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open Windows Media Player<\/li>\n
  2. Click on the “Now Playing Tab” and select “More Options”<\/li>\n
  3. Select the “DVD Tab”<\/li>\n
  4. Click on the “Advanced Box”<\/li>\n
  5. Under the Out Put Box “click the down arrow” beside (AS is (no change)<\/li>\n
  6. Select “1\/0 mono”<\/li>\n
  7. Click “Apply & OK” and “OK” again<\/li>\n
  8. Exit Media Player<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I tried following these instructions, but they started to differ after clicking the Advanced button. A ffdshow video decoder configuration appeared and it did have the Output tab, but nothing similar to any of the instructions that follow. I wonder if the bug is actually an ffdshow bug then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So for the longest time, I’ve been having problem with the audio when I streamed videos from particular sites. At first I thought it was just Firefox, but IE7 had had the same problem. CNN, MSNBC, and Yahoo! (just to name a few) all had problems with the audio. However, when playing videos off my … <\/p>\n

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