no, I have not tried that. I really don't even know how long it has been
happening since I discovered it pretty much by accident. I rarely turn on
the speaker. But a couple weeks ago there was no audio, so I tried the
different applications to see if any had audio and that is when I noticed the
messed up video. I had never had that problem before, although I rarely play
a DVD. Since a restart worked then I pretty much thought it was OK. Then it
happened again and the restart did not help.

"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Did you try System Restore to when all worked fine?
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> "mvgberg" <mvgberg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:418672B9-520B-4AF1-8AA9-E02D61ECBB6F@microsoft.com...
> > running windows xp media center edition with sp3 on dell desktop.
> > have encountered following problems which seem to occur randomly and all
> > at
> > same time.
> >
> > 1. when play dvd using media center there is no audio and dvd runs like it
> > is in fast forward.
> > 2. when play same dvd using power dvd 5.0 there is no audio and dvd runs
> > jerky
> > 3. when play music in media player 11 there is no audio and progress bar
> > runs like fast forward.
> >
> > when first encounterd did a restart and all was well, but last time
> > occurred
> > restart did not fix.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>