Going Crazy: Why No Sound w. Flash 9 in some but not all sites w/ embedded video?

oops double post

cheers... the reg edit works, seems that installing a codec pack messed the reg up.

you know what, ive tried everything on this forum and everything on every other and not been able to fix sound on the internet, and yet fine on windows media player and evrything else but you know what i realised today, i get no sound on startup either, the computers new and built by me and i had never noticed and i thought what if Explorer (ie Internet explorer, windows explorer and msut also firefox at some level, as i use firefox myself) is having the problem and then i thought does it have a problem with surround sound and i sundenly realised, my surround sound has the rear and side speakers plugged in only, and id forgot that, you know what i found out, internet and start up sounds only play through the FRONT speakers i am now in the process of absolutely kicking myself for letting this problem go on for weeks! i no i mite get called an absolute NOOB for posting this but for anyone else who has made this mistake here you go!

can anyone help me?

i am still having the problem (see above). those fixes do not work for me!

great work guys--adding "wavemapper" (without quots of course), ENTER, type "msacm32.drv immediately resolved the issue on a winxp sp2 machine--firefox and ie7 beta3

thanks sooo muchh "BilalM", "Gilhooley " you havv nooooooo idea how long i had this problem..it not only messed up the audio for youtube and google video etc..all websites with flash were audio less..even some of my games required it too..THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!

Ugh, I just fixed my problem. I had an issue where I could listen to music or watch video on Winamp, MediaPlayer, etc...but when it came to Flash, I could watch the video, but not hear the sound. My issue was that I had the speaker plugs plugged into the wrong spot. I had the speakers in the "Rear speaker" plug instead of the front speakers.

You guys seem like my best hope. It just started not working last night for me, except the circumstances are a bit strange.

Audio will not work for me with any flash videos, whether it's on the internet or local. None of them work. I still have audio with all video types (net or local) and all music files (mp3, wma, etc.).

I have the latest drivers for my sound card and the latest version of flash (9). Each have been uninstalled/reinstalled a few times.

I've tried the registry fix, the IE add-ons enabling, the manual fix for the wavemapper file, etc. Everything in this thread.

Here's the weird part. I have the ASUS A8V motherboard with the Realtek AC'97 audio controller, and that's what my speakers are plugged into. I have 2 headphone ports for my computer - one on my speakers, the other in the front of my computer case. Now, my headphones recieve the same for the speakers and case for videos and songs, but for flash, they don't recieve with the speakers, but <b>they do with the case?!?!?!?!</b> I don't understand. Please help me.

If editing the registry as mentioned above does not work then you can try uninstalling and then reinstalling your audio drivers. For example, flash video was skipping and the audio was not working in any browser (Flash 9, Windows XP, Intel motherboard, SoundMax Audio Drivers). I edited the registry, but that did not help. I went to intel.com and downloaded and reinstalled the SoundMax audio drivers for my motherboard. It did the trick.

I had trouble with SoundMax before. It is a 23 mb download and I only installed the driver file and not the associated SoundMax bloat. Everything worked fine except my audio programs would take a few seconds to close and video scrubbing in Adobe Premiere was slow and unresponsive. Reinstalling audio drivers (included the SoundMax files this time) fixed that as well.

I've been having the 'No sound in flash player' problem and I think I may have found a solution, at least it worked for me. I actually found this on another forum and the solution is for XP users I believe.

When I would check my sound and audio device properties, it actually said that I had no audio device. And for some odd reason, under the sound tab and voice tab all the devices were set to "Modem #1Line..." The dropdown menu in these fields did not allow for any other choice. So as per the other forum, I proceeded with:

Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services > Windows Audio. Make sure "Windows Audio" service is running. If it's not, right click on this service and select "start".

Then I went back to sound and audio device properties and switched all the "Modem #1 Line..." back to the proper device as it was now available in the dropdown menu. Now I have sound in youtube and any other flash related sites.

Hope this helps.