No Sound from the Internet

MosBen · 06-13-2012, 05:19 PM

Can anyone help me with this? All of a sudden yesterday I stopped getting sound from any websites. I tried both Chrome and IE, and nothing, whether it's from Pandora, Amazon Streaming, or embedded You Tube videos. The sound works fine on the rest of the machine; I can play movies, music, and games fine.

Just no sound on the internet. Very odd.

GigaFuzz · 06-13-2012, 05:23 PM

Are you on Windows 7? Check your application volume settings. Click the volume icon in the system tray and click Mixer, and see if your browser has been muted.

Edit: Probably won't be that, after checking those settings out.

MosBen · 06-13-2012, 05:30 PM

Vista. Yeah, nothing in the mixer. Weirdly, Chrome doesn't even show up in the mixer, though, for instance, Steam does.

GigaFuzz · 06-13-2012, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MosBen

Vista. Yeah, nothing in the mixer. Weirdly, Chrome doesn't even show up in the mixer, though, for instance, Steam does.

Is it just flash sites that aren't producing sound? Looks like it's a known issue in a recent version.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4488848

muddi900 · 06-14-2012, 03:54 AM

sorry.

civil_dead · 06-14-2012, 04:42 AM

I nominate this as Most Potentially Poetic & Philosophical Thread Title of 2012.

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Sent from a phone so please forgive any grammatical, spelling or factual errors.

MosBen · 06-14-2012, 11:40 AM

Yeah, it's definitely going to be the title of my memoir as a participant in many flame wars in the early life of the internet.

As for my problem, it still exists. Flash seems to be the most likely culprit, but I tried to do a clean uninstall/reinstall of an older version and it's still around. No sound from You Tube videos. Nothing from Pandora. No sound from Amazon Prime video, but Netflix streaming works fine.

Widgetcraft · 06-14-2012, 12:43 PM

Netflix uses Silverlight instead of Flash, so that is why it is still working.

Bone · 06-14-2012, 12:50 PM

Switch YouTube to HTML5. If that fixes it then Flash is almost definitely to blame.

MosBen · 06-27-2012, 05:11 PM

Bump. So, I went on vacation and hoped it'd all be fixed when I got back. It's not really fixed, but switching You Tube to HTML 5 seems to have fixed that end of the issue. But other Flash videos, like the documentary videos on the Double Fine site or PATV shows still don't work. I'm at a loss.

Darken Skye · 06-27-2012, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MosBen

Bump. So, I went on vacation and hoped it'd all be fixed when I got back. It's not really fixed, but switching You Tube to HTML 5 seems to have fixed that end of the issue. But other Flash videos, like the documentary videos on the Double Fine site or PATV shows still don't work. I'm at a loss.

You could try using a user agent switcher to trick pages into rendering as if you were on an idevice, that should at least work for the Double Fine and PATV stuff.

MosBen · 07-01-2012, 06:09 PM

Man, I had tried just about everything I could think of to fix this with no luck. I uninstalled and reinstalled Flash a bunch of times and checked different settings all over the place. I just fixed it right now by going into the Chrome plugin settings, disabling Flash, and then reenabling it. And that worked. Computers are super annoying.

06-13-2012, 05:19 PM	#1
MosBen Colonist Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,336	No Sound from the Internet Can anyone help me with this? All of a sudden yesterday I stopped getting sound from any websites. I tried both Chrome and IE, and nothing, whether it's from Pandora, Amazon Streaming, or embedded You Tube videos. The sound works fine on the rest of the machine; I can play movies, music, and games fine. Just no sound on the internet. Very odd.

06-13-2012, 05:23 PM	#2
GigaFuzz Xbox Serial Killer Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Glasgow, Scotland. Posts: 1,057	Are you on Windows 7? Check your application volume settings. Click the volume icon in the system tray and click Mixer, and see if your browser has been muted. Edit: Probably won't be that, after checking those settings out. Last edited by GigaFuzz; 06-13-2012 at 05:27 PM.

06-14-2012, 04:42 AM	#6
civil_dead 1% Prick. Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: NYC Posts: 2,119	I nominate this as Most Potentially Poetic & Philosophical Thread Title of 2012. - - - Sent from a phone so please forgive any grammatical, spelling or factual errors. __________________ consider my response to you to be the finger. - Zeal

06-14-2012, 12:43 PM	#8
Widgetcraft A *** in the machine. Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 11,727 Blog Entries: 2	Netflix uses Silverlight instead of Flash, so that is why it is still working. __________________ Currently Playing: Atelier Totori Plus, Soul Sacrifice Currently Watching: A Game of Thrones, Adventure Time Steam: Widgetcraft Follow me on Twitter!

06-14-2012, 12:50 PM	#9
Bone Extraordinary Prick Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 8,274 Blog Entries: 8	Switch YouTube to HTML5. If that fixes it then Flash is almost definitely to blame. __________________ I think I want to be you when I grow up, but I'm far more likely to be Bone. - Superman's Dead XBL: xx 8one xx 3DS: 0516-7281-0600 Steam: -Bone-

06-13-2012, 05:30 PM	#3
MosBen Colonist Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,336	Vista. Yeah, nothing in the mixer. Weirdly, Chrome doesn't even show up in the mixer, though, for instance, Steam does.

06-14-2012, 11:40 AM	#7
MosBen Colonist Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,336	Yeah, it's definitely going to be the title of my memoir as a participant in many flame wars in the early life of the internet. As for my problem, it still exists. Flash seems to be the most likely culprit, but I tried to do a clean uninstall/reinstall of an older version and it's still around. No sound from You Tube videos. Nothing from Pandora. No sound from Amazon Prime video, but Netflix streaming works fine.

06-27-2012, 05:11 PM	#10
MosBen Colonist Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,336	Bump. So, I went on vacation and hoped it'd all be fixed when I got back. It's not really fixed, but switching You Tube to HTML 5 seems to have fixed that end of the issue. But other Flash videos, like the documentary videos on the Double Fine site or PATV shows still don't work. I'm at a loss.

07-01-2012, 06:09 PM	#12
MosBen Colonist Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,336	Man, I had tried just about everything I could think of to fix this with no luck. I uninstalled and reinstalled Flash a bunch of times and checked different settings all over the place. I just fixed it right now by going into the Chrome plugin settings, disabling Flash, and then reenabling it. And that worked. Computers are super annoying.

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