Urgent help needed :(

Four of a kind

Hey,

I'm off to Tanzania tomorrow for a three month trip. I am bringing a advent netbook with me. I copied all my movie collection from my main laptop onto a small external hard drive that i intended using to watch movies on when out there.

However, when I pluged the external drive into laptop there was no sound coming from any of the movies on the advent netbook

I'm at a loss as what to do now. Pain in the arse tbh. Can't figure out what's happening. Visual is perfect, but no audio.

Any of ye experts in the field have a solution asap?????

thanks in advance for any help.

Carlo

Mr. Frost

If they're being played from the ext. hd then maybe you need to install the audio codec onto it also?

http://ac3filter.net/

bus77

Sounds like a driver issue, just download one of those Codec Packs and instal. K-lite is a famous one - http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm

daithijjj

do you have any audio/visual software on your main laptop thats not on the netbook?.............you could try d/loading one or both of the following to see if it works..........

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/ac3_filter.htm

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm

im not a techie by any means but i do have knowledge of codecs for audio and visual issues.......its worth a try id say.

Four of a kind

thanks guys...i'll get cracking at this later on and let ye know how it goes.

cheers

Gran Hermano

Copy one of the files from the external drive to the internal drive and see if it plays ok, that way you can identify whether it's the external drive that's the problem. I reckon it's a codec issue and as mentioned klite pack or playing with vlc should fix.

Four of a kind

ye guys are life savers!!! it was missing that codex. got it fixed and ready for off tomorrow. thanks again for the much needed tech advice.