WMP11 and Realtek HD Audio - Incompatible???

Been tearing my hair out for months. Can't seem to solve a problem I have.
WMP11 won't play anything I rip from CD. Copy protect is off when I rip but
wondering if it might be a DRM issue. Interestingly the sample files that
ship with WMP11 (audio and video) won't play either. If I rip in lossless
format they do play but that's impractical, too storage hungry. And ripped
files will play in other media players (Roxio, Cyberlink Power DVD).

LG P1 Express Dual Notebook
Vista Business
Realtek HD Audio driver 1.69

Any help greatly appreciated !!

sveale01 wrote:
> Been tearing my hair out for months. Can't seem to solve a problem I
> have. WMP11 won't play anything I rip from CD. Copy protect is off
> when I rip but wondering if it might be a DRM issue. Interestingly
> the sample files that ship with WMP11 (audio and video) won't play
> either. If I rip in lossless format they do play but that's
> impractical, too storage hungry. And ripped files will play in other
> media players (Roxio, Cyberlink Power DVD).
>
> LG P1 Express Dual Notebook
> Vista Business
> Realtek HD Audio driver 1.69
>
> Any help greatly appreciated !!
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I don't know if it would improve the issue
but there is a more current driver available:

RealTek Software: Drivers & Utilities
High Definition Audio Codecs
http://tinyurl.com/fls9e

And maybe the following link will lead to
something useful:

Troubleshooting Windows
Media Player 11 for Windows Vista
http://tinyurl.com/3dg3ar

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Thanks for your help, found a solution on another forum which I'll post
below, turned out to be something simple if you know where to look. Turns out
DRM wasn't involved, don't know why lossless format worked though when other
formats didn't. But as long as I can play my tunes I'm a happy man!

Cheers, Scott

Open Control Panel, Sound, click on Speakers (Playback tab), Advanced,

and untick Exclusive Mode "All applications to take exclusive control of this

device"




"John Inzer" wrote:

> sveale01 wrote:
> > Been tearing my hair out for months. Can't seem to solve a problem I
> > have. WMP11 won't play anything I rip from CD. Copy protect is off
> > when I rip but wondering if it might be a DRM issue. Interestingly
> > the sample files that ship with WMP11 (audio and video) won't play
> > either. If I rip in lossless format they do play but that's
> > impractical, too storage hungry. And ripped files will play in other
> > media players (Roxio, Cyberlink Power DVD).
> >
> > LG P1 Express Dual Notebook
> > Vista Business
> > Realtek HD Audio driver 1.69
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated !!
> ===============================
> I don't know if it would improve the issue
> but there is a more current driver available:
>
> RealTek Software: Drivers & Utilities
> High Definition Audio Codecs
> http://tinyurl.com/fls9e
>
> And maybe the following link will lead to
> something useful:
>
> Troubleshooting Windows
> Media Player 11 for Windows Vista
> http://tinyurl.com/3dg3ar
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://tinyurl.com/aczzp
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
>
>