[Kinzoku]

Check your sound settings. This was happening to me but AFTER I installed some VOIP software. The Sound Playback settings under Audio in Windows was defaulting to MODEM and the Windows Sound Scheme (Windows Default) was not active. You should be able to test the individual sounds like Asterisk, Critical Stop and hear something.

I switched it back (enabled Windows Default) and set Audio Playbac to my video card as opposed to the Modem and it now works.

BTW, the problems I experiended were: No Audio playback in any of the embedded pages (trailers, watching episode reruns on Scifi.com, youtube no audio). Quicktime worked however, when i played an external file or downloaded a movie. also i was getting audio in Windows media player and Gom player. Just couldnt play any audio from webpages directly. Hope this helps.

[kwroten]

First thanks for anyone trying to help!

Let me clarify what the symptoms are, to avoid confusion.

* System sounds (dings, dongs and startup music) all fine - loud and clear.

* Any media files on the harddrive play fine.

* Embedded media in websites such as flash, .wmv, .asf / .asx - no sound, but the video is great.

* If the website offers the option to play the files on an external player such as WMP it plays fine, with full sound.

Yet when I re-installed Quick Time Alternative, the website media sounds came back, but only until I rebooted.

This is nuts..

EDIT: Re-installed QT Alternative again, and now I have embedded sound again with Youtube, et cetera!

I figure soon as I reboot I'll lose it again.. this is making me crazy.


EDIT UPDATE 2: I rebooted and it was gone, so I re-installed for the 3rd time, this time with IExplorer closed - and after manually deleting the QT & QTAlternative folders - and now Youtube has sound along with all the other sites that would only play video.

I've NO IDEA what the deal was, but I've rebooted the comp 5 times now and fired off every media player I've got just in case somebody was snatching settings - VLC, WMP, WMP Classic, Real Alternative, QT Alternative to see if the issue returned, and so far SO GOOD!!!

Thanks for all the help everyone; I'm not sure what combination of magic tricks worked, but it looks my issue is solved!

[kwroten]

I'd advise anyone with this same weird-assed issue to try every fix that seemed to get results from page 1 of this thread forward.

Thanks to all again, and it's seems like I'm done with being web-deaf!