Audio problem playing DVD

Dan Dowd · Post by **Dan Dowd** » 2 Oct 2006 6:45 am

I am having a problem with audio playing DVD's. CD's play fine. I have 2 drives in my computer and neither one will play the audio on a DVD. I have upgraded the driver for my Sound Blaster Audigy card and I use XP pro. All other inputs play audio. I use Nero and windows Media player. They will play the video but no audio. The audio out from the CD/DVD players are connected to the sound card.

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Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 2 Oct 2006 7:38 am

Dan, If you have Windows XP, you do not use the analog outputs from the CD/DVD drives connected to the sound card.

Windows XP uses "digital audio" (via the IDE ribbon I/O cable) and that should be enabled for each drive in the Windows Device Manager.

Older operating systems used the separate analog cables.

Set the drives for digital audio and I suspect that will fix the problem.

Robert Leaman · Post by **Robert Leaman** » 2 Oct 2006 11:41 am

I have two Plextor DVD/CD drives. One has analogue output connected to the sound card (Audigy 4 Pro) and the other has digital output connected to the same sound card. Both drives play anything on either a CD or DVD. In fact, they both can play simultaneously but mixed music is disconcerting for me. OS is WinXP Pro SP2.

Dan Dowd · Post by **Dan Dowd** » 3 Oct 2006 6:26 am

Well its working now after trying several things. Jack it was already set for digital audio as you mentioned. I screwed up the the original installation so nothing worked by adding the new driver from Creative for Win XP. After I did that a error message came up saying the sound card was not installed properly. It would not let me fix it and tried to uninstall the drivers and re do it. I ended up using the original cd install disk for win 98 and it is working now. So much for updating programs and drivers. I guess the logic should be that if its working leave it alone and forget about having the latest upgrades. Thanks for the help guys.