No sound with Videos

[zanter8]

I have a Toshiba Satilite laptop and whenever I go to watch music videos from yahoo or anything like that.  I cant get sound.  But yet if I put in a movie or something then i do have sound.  And when I play my music from Media Player i have sound.  I looked in my device manager and everything is working properly. 

Any ideas?   

thnx

[Broni]

What Windows version? What browser? Did you try another browser?

[zanter8]

Media Center Edition.  I use IE7.   It worked up until about a month ago.  I cant get sound with any browser or media player on videos.  On my music files ...i can though.  Odd

[Broni]

Windows XP, maybe?
Are you current with Windows updates?

[zanter8]

XP, yes.  and yes. I have the latest updates.  Maybe I dont have up to date shockwave player or something.

[Broni]

The best way to eliminate some options, is to install Firefox, and see if same thing happens.

[zanter8]

I do have Firefox.  But the not all of the problems lie within Internet Browsers.  I cannot get my videos to play sound with Windows Media Player or WinDVD unless its running off of a DVD or USB or something.

[Broni]

Oh, so if you have video downloaded to your HD, it won't play sound, right?

Try downloading these codecs:
http://www.free-codecs.com/XP_Codec_Pack_download.htm