Quote:
Originally Posted by mastermind12
I have absolutely no sound when I use real player but when i used windows media there was sound but the quality of the video was bad. Any ideas on why I don't have sound on real player?
|
I found that the windows stream was very poor using Media Player Classic, but was very good using the Windows Media Player that comes with windows. In my case, I'm using wmplayer.exe (start->run->wmplayer) version 10.00.00.4058 (check help->about). It appears that the stream server actually sends entirely different streams (50k/s for the good one, 5k/s for the bad one) depending on your player, which makes me think that perhaps the player is misreporting your available bandwidth. I'm thinking that it is possible that Media Player Classic sent the server an indication I'm using a 56kbps modem, so I got a 40kbps stream. Playing around with the settings might solve that.
Edit: Confirmed. I went to Windows Media Player's tools->options->performance tab, and set it to 28.8kbps instead of auto-detect, and I ended up with a tiny 16kbps stream instead of the larger 400kbps stream I had been getting earlier. Make sure your options are set properly.