Can't play any type of media

lorior

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Jun 6, 2017
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my PC wont play anything. any type of video or audio file just doesn't play at all, even browser based videos and music like youtube or soundcloud aren't working and I'm not really sure what could be causing this at all
 
Solution
I meant removing all drivers, not just headset drivers, but audio drivers from the motherboard(or audio card if you have one), and try again, without installing any drivers, I know the sound won't work.


well when i try to open them I get a freeze frame from the very first frame of the video and on youtube it just buffers forever, also I just noticed that sound in games and such is also not working
 


I uninstalled the drivers but the drivers for my headset require a restart to be removed, so without removing those I tried and it still didn't work, and of course when I did restart my PC to remove them all the drivers got reinstalled but its still not working
my headset drivers are
turtlebeach z60 gaming audio
turtlebeach z60 chat audio
(it has two separate volume wheels one for chat like skype and discord and anther for everything else)
 
The drivers for your graphics card/GPU are properly installed and working?

I could also think of missing media codecs (though that shouldn't happen on modern Windows installations anymore). Check for h264 and h265 (aka HEVC) codecs, as those are often used.
 


okay so I uninstalled all audio drivers apart from realtek High Definition Audio (it requires a reboot)
and unplugged my headset and the sound is working, so would the issue be my headset and if so how could I fix it?
 
so now i just decided to test plugging my headset back in and allowing it to reinstall itself, and its working! I guess it was just a case of a faulty/missing driver?
 


well i did everything you said and then just plugged my headset back in and it worked! thanks for the help