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    Sound Problem on Macbook

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by BlindSword, Sep 19, 2006.

  1. BlindSword

    BlindSword Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey, I've been searching the internet for a solution to this problem im having but i've had no luck. It started yesterday. I have a macbook with 100 gb hard, 2.0ghz, 1 gb ram. I just upgraded it after buying it stock from 60gb hd and 512mb ram. When it had the 60 gb hd, everything was running fine, Itunes worked and divX worked, however I couldnt get any video on quicktime. I had transferred some files from windows so it may not have the right codecs.

    The real problem is no there is no sound with any video I play in quicktime or divx. Itunes works fine and I havnt tested it on any internet multimedia. I checked the support forums on apple but nothing helped. And I can't find any other sources that have any solutions for this problem.

    Has anyone here run into this problem?
     
    BlindSword, Sep 19, 2006
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  2. cashmonee

    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    No sound means no codec. You must not have the proper audio codec. iTunes uses Quicktime, so there should be no problem there. It has to be a codec issue. Perhaps you had it before ad when you migrated it did not get copied right or Quicktime/divx does not know its there.
     
    cashmonee, Sep 20, 2006
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  3. Wooky

    Wooky Notebook Evangelist

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    Which videos are you trying to run? download some videos from the Apple site to make sure it is not a hardware problem. Then get your videos over on a windows machine and see what sound codec they use.

    I think ffmpegX (for OS X) identifies codecs, take a look. Also try using VLC and Mplayer on OS X and see if the problem continues.
     
    Wooky, Sep 20, 2006
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    BlindSword Notebook Enthusiast

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    I think you were right cashmonee. It was probably a codec issue and they didnt transfer over. Good things is it works now and quicktime even plays video again so everything is working great.
     
    BlindSword, Sep 20, 2006
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