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El Gonzo
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November 30, 2006
Question

No sound in Flash movies

  • November 30, 2006
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About 2 weeks ago, I noticed that linked YouTube videos that I had previously watched and listened to suddenly had no sound. A little more investigation showed me that no flash videos had sound any more. I've reinstalled several times, including both OS X versions. I've used the uninstaller (which, by the way, does not delete all of the Flash files in the Library folder). I've reinstalled all of my browsers. No online Flash movie from any source has sound on any browser.

Can anyone help?
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    512jones
    Participant
    December 1, 2006


    I just reinstalled my system with XP SP2 and found that sound in Macromedia Flash player (version 9) wasn’t working. I compared it to another machine and found out that - for some obscure reason - the wavemapper mapping was missing.

    I tried reinstalling other versions of the Flash player, but to no success … So I added the mapping myself via the registry.

    Go to the following sweetspot in your registry:

    My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32

    Create a new String value named “wavemapper“. As value give it “msacm32.drv“.

    And that’s it, no restart necessary, all your Flash embedded videos will have sound again :)
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    enola01
    Participant
    December 1, 2006
    Hi. Thanks for yr hint since I have the same problem.
    Unfortunately, I don't know how to get "the registry" or if it is a folder. On top of that, I haven't be able to find "My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32" in my PC.

    Would you be so kind and provide a more detailed info?

    Thanks in advance for yr help.

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    El GonzoAuthor
    Participant
    December 1, 2006
    512 Jones: I'm a Mac user and don't have a registry or its equivalent on my computer, but thanks for the help.

    Enola01: To get to the entry he mentioned, you have to edit the registry. There is a command line utility called regedit that you can use, but if you aren't pretty well familiar with it, I wouldn't try to do it yourself; you can pretty much trash XP if you make a big mistake with regedit. I'd suggest printing jones' message and looking for a friend who's familiar with registry editing to check it out for you.
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