Hi Guys,

i have 2 files that won't play sound on this pc. Both are DivX, both play on my laptop with sound, but i have not put any decoders on that all.

This machine XP, laptop Fista.

1 is Foo Fighters live at Wembley, the other is the Imax Speedway thing.

please help ! i'll payback in hugs and kisses.

Thanks.
Pete.

So you've confirmed the sound is alright on that PC by:

a) Checking your sound devices in Device Manager
b) Made sure it's not muted etc etc
c) Using Windows Sounds to confirm audio from Windows is OK.

Install the K-Lite Codec Pack, then try again.

yeha i can play everything else, just these 2 files. I just d/loaded a program called G spot which you put the files into that tells you what programs had been used to compress them, and it came up Xvid and Mp4v, so i got the Xvid codec and it's exactly the same.

Going to download that k-lite codec pack now.

The K-Lite Codec pack is good. Contains pretty much every codec you'd ever need to play stuff you d/l from the net.

Would be surprised if that doesn't make it work.

you rock, i uninstalled all the other codecs, run k-lite and it fixed it. Thanks heaps.

i'll keep that in my re-install file for when i format soon.

thanks thanks thanks !

tried using vlc?

+1 Don't bother messing around with codec packs

VLC for the win

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I use to muck around with various codecs etc... VLC is the shizz.. even plays MP4 format movies and many many others.

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or mplayer... easier than even vlc imo. though i use vlc sometimes for... dvds mostly.