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Browser audio

Sep 14, 2005 4:54PM PDT

Hey guys. I hate to begrudge yet ANOTHER problem, but you have always been oh-so-helpfull at getting me back online to full capacity in the past.

Anyway, the sound on my internet browser just stopped working. My iTunes still works just fine but any of the browsers I use(primarily firefox but others wont go aswell) will not have any audio when they should.

The only thing I can think of is that I downloaded a WMV file yesterday that had an insufficent audio codec and would only play garbled sound. As far as I know, the sound was working properly before that.

thanks so much for your help.

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Name Names
Sep 14, 2005 9:41PM PDT

Where are you going that should have sound? My browser does not make any sound at all, lucky I guess.
What exactly are you trying to do and what sounds are you expecting?


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specifically
Sep 15, 2005 2:42AM PDT

The problem I've had involves Flash audio. Any sort of movie or advert will not produce audio.

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Name Names
Sep 15, 2005 6:17AM PDT

Where?

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for instance
Sep 15, 2005 8:13AM PDT

Things like Homestarrunner.com won't produce sound.

None of the aplets on albinoblacksheep.com will do it either.

My warcraft 3 program, i've recently found, is audio-less as well.

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Sound
Sep 15, 2005 10:00AM PDT

Great. The first site is running Shockwave and produces sound on my machine. If your machine can produce sound, system sound, iTunes, etc. then I would try going to the Adobe site and reloading Flash and Shockwave.
If your machine does not produce sound, then check the sound preferences and make sure that all is well in that department.

Let us know

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My Bad
Sep 15, 2005 10:01AM PDT

I see that you say that iTunes produces sound.
On with Plan A. Download and install Shockwave and Flash


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