Need alternate media player

Klicks · Post by **Klicks** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:49 pm

Right no I'm using Windows Media Player because all the videos with their various codecs play in there. However, I'm not sure when it started, but my audio has gone fuzzy whenever turned up much at all. Every other program plays audio crystal clear, and when I turn WMP to a very low volume and my speakers very high the audio seems fine, but then I go into a different program and they're suddenly blasting. So, I need a new free media player with support for the various codecs. Any suggestions? Or even a solution to this strange problem?

akicafe · Post by **akicafe** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:56 pm

try using VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc

Katsumi_AMVs · Post by **Katsumi_AMVs** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:57 pm

looks like that you're having the same problem that I had with my WMP some months ago , in my case was necessary change the settings in my graphic equalizer and turn off the SRSWOW effects.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 7:42 pm

Media Player Classic
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... e_id=84358

Klicks · Post by **Klicks** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 8:00 pm

I'm in the process of downloading the mentioned media players.

Oddly, I found that while messing with Windows audio panel I could get high quality sound by turning the Wave Volume down as much as possible and simply turning up the speakers from their control knob. Paulo, is the SRSWOW specific to your audio software/hardware or should I be looking for that?

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 8:34 pm

Windows' volume control sucks really big dick, your solution is the best one (keep Volume Control and Wave near bottom).

Katsumi_AMVs · Post by **Katsumi_AMVs** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 8:39 pm

Klicks wrote:I'm in the process of downloading the mentioned media players.

Oddly, I found that while messing with Windows audio panel I could get high quality sound by turning the Wave Volume down as much as possible and simply turning up the speakers from their control knob. Paulo, is the SRSWOW specific to your audio software/hardware or should I be looking for that?

Um . . . I'm using WMP9 , and the SRSWOW effects are included in this version. I can't say if older versions have this effect or not , because this is my first comp

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:01 pm

Start -> Run -> type "mplayer2"

There's your free media player

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 10:19 pm

I know WMP8 had the SRS WOW effects, and I think WMP7 did as well. Originally I found them to be quite cool and always had them on, but now I haven't used them in a year or more.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:12 am

Klicks wrote:I'm in the process of downloading the mentioned media players.

Oddly, I found that while messing with Windows audio panel I could get high quality sound by turning the Wave Volume down as much as possible and simply turning up the speakers from their control knob. Paulo, is the SRSWOW specific to your audio software/hardware or should I be looking for that?

Depends a lot on the sound card software that you have.
sound blaster likes to install all sorts of useless stuff that you will never ever want to mess with. Windows update installs C-media updates and so forth. Things get messed with sometimes for no real apparent reason.
If you go to your device manager, you should be able to force your computer to use the software device and mixer that you want.

Tab wrote:Windows' volume control sucks really big dick, your solution is the best one (keep Volume Control and Wave near bottom).

This as Tab so eloquently put it, is true. If you think of your stereo, that big box probably connected to your TV with big space eating speakers and massive 15" subs you'll notice that it's pretty heavy right? Most of that weight is in the transformer and heat sinks. Now when you install a sound card.. notice how it weights maybe 4 ounces? No transformer, not much heat sink either probably. This means that you get more and more distortion when you try to turn it up using the software controls.

Oddly enough I've seen a couple HP's that had huge heat sinks on the motherboard, and the onboard sound went loud as hell. So this isn't true for all comps.