Solution to Fix Youtube or Other Embedded Flash Video No Sound in External Websites
A video plays fine and properly when played directly in originating video sharing and hosting sites Youtube, MetaCafe, Google Video, CNet Videos, DailyMotion, iFilm, and Revver themselves, complete with the sound heard nicely. However, the audio is lost and no sound is heard when the Flash video is played on another third party or external sites or blogs that embedded these Youtube and other sites’ videos, although the video still moving. The symptom happens when users computers is using Flash 8 or 9, and uninstalling and reinstalling Adobe Flash Player won’t help.
Here is a simple solution to fix the problem that embedded flash video from Youtube, Google Video, Daily Motion, Revver, iFilm and Metacafe on third party websites or blogs failed to play sound and audio.
- Visit a web page with a Flash video embedded on the page.
- Click on the Flash video to activate the Flash plugin (only on SP2 or above), then right click on video to display the Flash properties menu.
- Click on “Settings” on contextual menu, then click the “Advanced…” button.
- A new web page window will launch loading Adobe – Flash Player – Manager. On the left pane, click on “Global Storage Settings Panel” link under “Flash Player Help Settings Manager” sub-section under “Table of Contents” section.
- A Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager applet will load on the right pane as a Flash object. Check (tick) the “Allow third-party Flash content to store data on your computer” checkbox so that it’s checked. The settings should be auto-save, if the setting is not saved, try to close all Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser windows and launch the Flash Manager to set the option again.
- Try to play Flash video. The sound should be played properly.
If the above guide does not solve the problem that video clips from Youtube, VideoSift, Break, Google Videos, Dailymotion, Yahoo, and other video sharing websites play no sound on external sites while audio output fine when viewing the video on video hosting sites itself. Another possible cause is that the Flash contents which is cached get corrupted or damaged, preventing audio streaming from working correctly (Most video sharing sites use Flash video technology to deliver video and audio streaming). To solve this possible corruption, try to use the following hack.
- Download and install CCleaner, a freeware system optimization and privacy tool that able to remove unused files from system, and clean traces of online activities.
- Run CCcleaner, uncheck and unselect everything that is selected in both Windows and Applications tabs for Cleaner function, except the option of Macromedia Flash Player, located under Multimedia branch in Applications tab. Ensure that all other options are unselected, or else there may be unforeseen sequences including unable to boot your computer.
- Click on “Analyze” button, and when finished, click on “Run Cleaner” button when done. This will clean and clear out the old downloaded Flash caches.
- Try to load the embedded videos again, the sound should output fine now.
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August 19th, 2009 20:58
I found a fix for this that worked for me.
Open Regedit and navigate to following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
If the key is empty:
Right-click on key and go to Permissions -> Advanced -> Chooce your user account and hit Edit. Then change all permissions to Allow.
Restart computer.
August 1st, 2009 08:33
forgot to mention, already checked registry entries, they are all present and correct
August 1st, 2009 08:31
Doesn’t work for me, still no sound.
Need an MP3 or MP4 sound file as that’s the latest encoding, Adobe link doesn’t work though.
Just downloaded flash 10, shockwave 11, still no joy
July 16th, 2009 01:40
DIDN’T WORK!
July 6th, 2009 11:59
Excuse me, REdlandter….but how I can get back the WMDAUD.DRV
and reisntall it? Im so frustrated, nothing works for me….hope this can give me my sound back.
thanx
June 8th, 2009 04:08
Let me describe what I did to fix the lost FLash Player’s audio. Before finding the solution, I had tried every trick in the book and those offered on the forums to no avail:
- wavemapper”=”msacm32.drv (yes, I had it in my registry)
-”Allow third-party Flash content to store data on your computer” checkbox was checked by default
- Cleaned out the old downloaded caches in Flash by running CCLEANER
- Uninstalled FLASH 10 and reinstalled it (several times)
Nothing worked! Then by chance while looking in the registry and double-checking each value against the DLL and DRV files in SYSTEM32, I saw that I missed WMDAUD.DRV in the SYSTEM32 folder (which explained why I kept hearing my computer beep through its own internal sound device rather through the speakers via Windows wave sound). I didn’t know why the WMDAUD.DRV was deleted though it was protected. Anyway, I copied it back, rebooted my system and the FLASH audio came back on every Webcast.
June 8th, 2009 00:13
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May 23rd, 2009 00:11
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