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Sound! No sound! Sound!
This problem seems to be fixed now, but I thought I'd post the story anyway. Maybe someone here can explain to me what the hell happened!
I mostly use Power DVD on my computer for music, but four days ago I loaded a selection into the playlist and nothing happenned. I tried to get it going a few times but the Error Message came up every time. Eventually I let the error report go through to Microsoft and used Windows Media Player instead. Just to test the Power program I put a CD into the machine, and it played fine.
That was Thursday evening. Friday, Power DVD wasn't giving me any sound at all from media files, CD or DVD sources. And then Saturday the whole machine shut up. I couldn't even get the Windows theme when I started it. Some of the music on my computer has come from Limewire, so my fear was that I'd picked up a virus or trojan, but I ran an ewido online scan and it only showed a few cookies. I used System Restore to get the machine back to the last checkpoint before the trouble began: great sigh of relief, everything back to normal.
I hadn't deleted the playlist from the program so I decided to try it again. This time I got a different message: "ERROR 80040218 - no combination of filters could be found to render the stream." And instead of jamming up, the programme skipped the first song on the playlist and went to the second without any trouble.
To cap off my confusion I Googled this error message and it appears to relate specifically to Media Player - which also refused to play the problem music file by the way. But I wasn't using that when the message came up. Anybody out there got an explanation? No words of more than three syllables, please.
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