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Sony vegas playback problem!

Asked by funadvice about 1 year ago, 3 answers.

I've just finally found a free trial of sony vegas I haven't used and it was working perfect and everything was playing back fine, but then it stopped letting me playback projects, a message pops up saying:

An error occured while starting playback...

The device specified is in use.

And when I click on details it says,The playback device Microsoft Sound Mapper does not exist.

Anyone know the problem?

Answered by editor on Oct 01, 2008, 10:33AM
8965 answers

Ok, it seems you either have one of 2 things:

1) Spyware. Run Avast antivirus (Free) and delete any spyware on your computer

2) Codec is missing. A codec is script used when compressing a file. Depending on the type of file you can't play, that's the codec you're missing.

Try this thread for more help:
http://www.indietalk.com/archive/index.php/t-6157.html

Answered by funadvice on Oct 01, 2008, 12:33PM
53985 answers

Thanks for the advice but its all sorted now ^^ My settings were wrong so my brother fixed them for me =]

Answered by meruleyou on Jun 22, 2009, 06:48AM

how did you fix it?
im facing the same problem

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