Can't hear streaming video at cnn anymore., no sound fix inside

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If your running XP/Vista with Windows Media Player 9,10 or 11, you may not hear streaming video sound at cnn.com and other websites that stream with WMP. The problem is not limited to mono files but some are reporting playback problems with DVDs and VOB files. The problem on my PC was narrowed to AC3 codec and solved by reinstalling AC3Filter. The people having the DVD/VOB issue seem to have narrowed it to AC3 codec too!

WMP seems to install and use its own buggy AC3 decoder - in most cases the performance of other players on the system is not compromised and you can still watch/listen the problematic files with them.
So, the best solution and least harmful(compared to codec packs where some people report having problems with other file types afterwards) is re/installing the AC3 codec.

AC3 codec is required to read any kind of AC3 or DTS files. …there're many kinds of AC3 and DTS files. Some files are ripped from AC3/AudioCD or DTS/AudioCD, some are ripped from DVD in PES container some files may have different byte ordering...


You can use AC3Filter (750K. Worked for me)

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=66022&package_id=63808

or you can try only the essential AC3File (180K):

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=119627

regards
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