Windows 7 Now there's audio, now there's not...

[can3gxw]

Just installed Windows 7 this past weekend and so far love it... now it's time to start digging into some of the meat, like the Media Center. I have one problem though - no audio on some AVI/DivX files.

I can play some, and they play perfectly fine. Blows my ears off... However, when I play others, I get the video only and no sound. I have no problem with sound normally, as my device (AC97) was recognized "out of the box".

Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be missing, or what I can look at? It really doesn't make any sense. I loaded a DVD and it plays fine. The problem is that not "ALL" of my AVI files have sound.

Help....

 

[UnKnOwN]

did u reinstall all your codecs for divx playback? get cccp, all in one package
Combined Community Codec Pack

 

[can3gxw]

I thought Windows 7 was supposed to have all the regular codecs included and codec packs weren't needed?

I'm not against installing codecs, but shouldn't this work the way MS says it should?

 

[Kyle]

DivX still isn't supported as a regular codec.
If you don't like codecs, I would suggest you download and use VLC Player (VLC media player - Overview) as your video player.
It has all the codecs built in, and does a much better job of playback than any other player.

 

[UnKnOwN]

some divx files are encoded differently and may require additional codecs which you dont have. i normally just download and install the cccp and everything works flawlessly. you can try installing the vlc player if you dont want to install codecs.

 

[hata28]

I love to play divx avi, rmvb, mkv and HD wmv files..... so I installed CCCP and Real alternates Lite codec. Using KM Player to play without issues... even Windows Media Player can play rmvb files.