From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Sat May 09 1998 - 18:41:19 EDT
Recently I noticed that my .wav files stopped playing. One obvious thing was that .wav files are set to be opened with Active Movie instead of SNDREC or Mplayer; presumably this switch happened when I installed IE4 and DirectShow.
Active Movie reports a 'hardware not found or working' error - fair enough, though odd since it plays midi files fine! Anyway, I then looked at the hardware and found that W95 was assigning the ESS chip different resources that the ThinkPad Features program was. Switching this made no difference at all.
Next, I took a look at the IBM web site; they (seem to) have a new Audio Features diskette (v. 1.02, dated April '98) where the latest addition is DirectX support. Great! So, I downloaded the file, and installed the driver. However, even though the reported driver version is v4.04.00.1102 (which I interpret as version 1.02), the files themselves are all dated May '97, and installing the new drivers hasn't helped at all!
Can anyone help me here? Of course, I can reset the open associations for .wav files to SNDREC - in fact, I just did this - but I still have the sound problems in other apps which use PCM sound encoding, e.g. AVI files. I'd really like to get this working right.
Thanks,
David A. Ross
ross_at_math.hawaii.edu
www.math.hawaii.edu/~ross
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