No audio after installing ffdshow

[UncleSpooky]

I'm a techno noob. I'll admit that right off the start. Here's the thing. I have been using the vista codec pack and everything was fine. I recently tried to play a new mkv file that suggested I download the latest ffdshow. I did, and lost all sound for all movies, flash, and mp3's, but my speaker test sounds find.
I uninstalled ffdshow, uninstalled the codec pack, restarted, reinstalled the codec pack, but still no sound.

Any suggestions?

UncleSpooky wrote:
> I'm a techno noob. I'll admit that right off the start. Here's the
> thing. I have been using the vista codec pack and everything was
> fine. I recently tried to play a new mkv file that suggested I
> download the latest ffdshow. I did, and lost all sound for all
> movies, flash, and mp3's, but my speaker test sounds find.
> I uninstalled ffdshow, uninstalled the codec pack, restarted,
> reinstalled the codec pack, but still no sound.
>
> Any suggestions?
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Might be worth a try to do a system restore
to a time before the issue began.

Good luck.

Windows Vista -
System Restore:
frequently asked questions
http://tinyurl.com/u6z5p
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...fb3f01033.mspx

Windows Vista -
How to Do a System Restore in Vista
http://tinyurl.com/2bdvvv
or...
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...store-how.html

Using Windows Vista
System Restore
http://tinyurl.com/2qhd77
or...
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...ystem-restore/


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John Inzer
MS Digital Media MVP

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[UncleSpooky]

...but I seem to have fixed the problem. Seems ffdshow set my default sound output to digital as default, and since I am not using that, I was getting no sound. I reset my speakers to default and I got my sound back. I didn't even think of looking there.

UncleSpooky wrote:
> ..but I seem to have fixed the problem. Seems ffdshow set my default
> sound output to digital as default, and since I am not using that, I
> was getting no sound. I reset my speakers to default and I got my
> sound back. I didn't even think of looking there.
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Thanks for the update.

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John Inzer
MS Digital Media MVP

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk