Windows Media player wont play audio from dvds

thnkbg wrote on 8/17/2007, 2:52 AM

I created a dvd with sony vegas & dvd arcitect. it plays in perfect in win dvd & other dvd apps but it wont play the audio in windows media player.

Im Thinking I need to load some codec like the ac3 codec for wmp to be able to play the audio in wmp. can I also work around this by encoding the audio part in another format like mp3 are do I have to except the ac3 because its part of the mpeg2 standard?

Why do all other blockbuster video dvds play audio in wmp perfect with no extra codecs needed but if I ceate a dvd it needs a special codec. Do they include all the codecs on the dvd itself?

My goal is to create a dvd that plays in anything without needing special this or that because most of my end users wont know what to do & my created dvds will be useless.

This is freakin confusing. please help

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bStro wrote on 8/17/2007, 10:21 AM

I suspect it's a problem specifically with Windows Media Player itself, and nothing to do with codecs or DVD Architect. WMP uses whichever codecs were added by the DVD player apps on your system -- so if a DVD plays fine in those, it should play fine in WMP.

What version of WMP is it? And what version of Windows are you using?

can I also work around this by encoding the audio part in another format like mp3

Couldn't tell you since I don't know why WMP won't play the audio in the DVD you have now. But I do know that you'd need to use something else to make the DVD 'cause DVD Architect will not make a DVD with MP3 audio.

Do [Blockbuster DVDs] include all the codecs on the dvd itself?

Nope. The DVDs only include media and instructions. All playing legwork is done by the player application or device.

Rob

GenJerDan wrote on 8/18/2007, 1:31 AM

I think you have to explicitly tell WMP to play DVDs. The MPEG stuff is loaded as a seperate plugin, which can be had at the Microsoft site. (Tools | Download | Plug-ins menu)

MPM wrote on 8/31/2007, 9:29 AM

Wmplayer
won't necessarily use every codec on your system, even if a codec is available to windows outside of the program that owns it -- which is not always the case. Windows will also go by priorities of codecs &/or DS filters, and there are many cases of these filters mis-representing what they can handle to Windows. So in a nutshell, it may indeed be necessary (or at least easiest) to install AC3 filter or similar, or one of the DVD decoder packs that works with Wmplayer.

OTOH If a retail DVD plays in Wmplayer, a DVD you burn should play there too. Many software players will not play files off the hdd, and this might be where your system is finding it's AC3 decoder, but all of them should work on discs. Another possibility is if you're creating 5.1 DVDs... Most retail DVDs come with 5.1 and stereo AC3 files, and many software players (& their filters) will not handle 5.1 AC3.