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I have a LightScribe DVD Recorder/Player and recently I lost my audio from
it. I have uninstalled it several times and still no audio. It had worked
perfectly. I can't remember if the DVD came with a disc, but now I am
unable to locate one.
.. . .Other than 'uninstalling' the DVD and rebooting and allowing the system
to find it to re-install it, My soundcard is a 'Realtek HD Audio. I did
manage to get the MicroSoft bell to sound. When rebooting the M/S theme
plays. Does anyone have any suggestions for tasks for me to perform to get
the DVD audio back.

Has the media you're trying to play worked in the past? Try a different
one?

I don't think DVD players come with installation disks.

Chas wrote:
> I have a LightScribe DVD Recorder/Player and recently I lost my audio from
> it. I have uninstalled it several times and still no audio. It had worked
> perfectly. I can't remember if the DVD came with a disc, but now I am
> unable to locate one.
> . . .Other than 'uninstalling' the DVD and rebooting and allowing the system
> to find it to re-install it, My soundcard is a 'Realtek HD Audio. I did
> manage to get the MicroSoft bell to sound. When rebooting the M/S theme
> plays. Does anyone have any suggestions for tasks for me to perform to get
> the DVD audio back.
>
>

There is DVD audio...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd_audio

Whereas CD audio is a much simpler scheme. The necessary ingredient with
CD audio, is the Device Manager property box with the digital audio extraction
tick box.

"Enable digital cd audio for this cd-rom device"

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...cname=bph07155

So which of the two are you after. Are you inserting a music CD into
the CD/DVD burner and trying to play it ? If so, you might try the second link.

I don't know anything about setting up the first link. I've never
seen such a disc (actual DVD audio format, dripping in DRM).

Paul

On Feb 12, 9:36*pm, "Chas" <footboar...@bresnan.net> wrote:
> I have a LightScribe DVD Recorder/Player and recently I lost my audio from
> it. *I have uninstalled it several times and still no audio. *It had worked
> perfectly. *I can't remember if the DVD came with a disc, but now I am
> unable to locate one.
> . . .Other than 'uninstalling' the DVD and rebooting and allowing the system
> to find it to re-install it, * My soundcard is a 'Realtek HD Audio. *I did
> manage to get the MicroSoft bell to sound. *When rebooting the M/S theme
> plays. *Does anyone have any suggestions for tasks for me to perform toget
> the DVD audio back.

http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadS...ex.aspx?id=810
Gives you a download (.exe size 13+ .mb) I downloaded it to check for
nasties. Ran it by Malwarebytes & AVG. Came out clean. Have a look
yourself, Chas. I don't have a LS player.
Good luck.

I had somehow changed the setting to 'analog' and that was the culprit.
Thanks to 1 & all for the help. . .chas
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">I have a LightScribe DVD Recorder/Player and recently I lost my audio from
> it. I have uninstalled it several times and still no audio. It had
> worked perfectly. I can't remember if the DVD came with a disc, but now I
> am unable to locate one.
> . . .Other than 'uninstalling' the DVD and rebooting and allowing the
> system to find it to re-install it, My soundcard is a 'Realtek HD Audio.
> I did manage to get the MicroSoft bell to sound. When rebooting the M/S
> theme plays. Does anyone have any suggestions for tasks for me to perform
> to get the DVD audio back.
>
>

Chas wrote:

> I had somehow changed the setting to 'analog' and that was the culprit.

Analog would work if you have the thin 2- to 4-wire cable running from
the 4-pin header on the CD/DVD drive (analog output) to a 4-pin
motherboard header (analog input, often labelled CDaudio or CD1). If
that is absent then you must have the audio/video transferred over the
digital connection (IDE ribbon or SATA cable).

Using the digital transfer over data cable eliminates having to do the
[usually poor quality] digital-to-analog conversion at the optical drive
and then convert analog back to digital at the mobo header; i.e., the
content gets read as digital data, transferred as digital data, and
received as digital data without the nuisance and quality loss of having
to perform multiple conversions. Also, since you need the data/control
cable to operate the device, you already have the transfer path for the
content.

Unless you had been fiddling with the device's properties in Device
Manager, I don't see how this setting would've been "accidentally"
changed from analog to digital (by enabling a previously disable
configuration option in the device's properties). Did the "sudden" loss
occur after you let someone else play with your computer? If there are
others that have physical access to your computer, do you have a secure
password on your Windows account and either log out/off or use a screen
saver (with short idle timeout) to prevent others from covertly using
your computer?