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Sound used to work, now only blips of sound

When playing a midi file, sound works fine. When playing streaming media, we hear a brief blip of sound (less than 1/2 second) at the beginning of the file, and occasionally another blip or two of sound a long length apart (seconds/minutes apart).

Have uninstalled and reinstalled Windows Media Player and RealOne player.

dbrunton

What type of streaming media and where are you getting it from?

Sounds like from the InterNet and your connection is not fast enough to support it.

Raanan

did u try upgrading the DirectX version ?
it might do the trick.

esc_toe_account

We have cable internet, very fast downloads. Have tried about 20-30 sources of streaming media, at different speeds

dbrunton

Hmm

If you are on cable and you have tried various sources then are you perhaps going through a firewall?

controltheweb

ASKER

No firewall.

dbrunton

Try here. This link talks about problems you may be having with Windows Media Player.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/support/faq/SUPFAQMPlayer.asp

dbrunton

And this one

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/stream.html

controltheweb

ASKER

Same exact issue with RealPlayer, though. Seems likely to be hardware installation related.

dbrunton

If you can download files at a good clip then it should't be hardware related.

More likely your settings as the two links indicate. Your software may not be set for high speed streaming.

esc_toe_account

I will test a bunch of settings for speed this evening.

controltheweb

ASKER

Apologies, viewed page on a borrowed computer logged in under another account. I (not esc_toe) will test a bunch of settings for speed this evening.

controltheweb

ASKER

After experimenting with settings, all sound now unavailable, including MIDI. Will uninstall and reinstall players.

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