RE: Dell's Media Direct Need shortcut keys
- From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:04:50 -0400
I too would like any info you find out.
One suggestion on media player 11, which should work in playing dvd
sound: start up media player, choose the tools menu and the options
choice. In the dialog, choose the dvd tab. click the defaults button.
Check that the audio setting is set to the "title default" (it's the
very top choice), and not set to force a particular language.
As I understand it, if you set it to a particular language, it will look
for an audio track on the DVD listed as being in that language, instead
of playing the default audio track.
Also, I suspect it would be helpful if you identified which OS you're
running all this under (I just got a Dell laptop and it runs Vista).
We had a problem where we could not get the video, but we could get the
audio. It turned out we needed to download a "codec" for vista. This
info came from the internet, and pointed us to a codec or collection of
codecs that would likely work, and indeed it did, the video was present
after installing it.
I believe this can also happen with audio, that is, they can have their
own codecs which need to be present. There's another setting somewhere
in media player, it was a checkbox which said "automatically download
codecs". It should be checked.
If it is, then maybe you should go google on media player, dvd, and
sound to see if there's an audio codec you should download.
hth,
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sherrie Gosling
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:05 AM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Dell's Media Direct Need shortcut keys
>
> With sighted assistance I discovered that for some reason Window's
> Media Player 11 will not output sound when a DVD is played.
> The computer came with Dell's Media Direct which will start with the
> enter key but I can't figure out how to do anything else.
> I searched the Dell.com site and found nothing useful.
> Does anyone use this Dell program? Really all I need is pause,
> rewind and fast forward to get by since enter starts a dvd I think.
> If I close the program and then go back to the DVD it starts where it
> was when I exited
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> The keys given for Power DVD don't seem to work so I assume that is a
> different program.
> Thanks,
> Sherrie
>
>
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