stony

All is solved I have found the problem and solved it. My mother board is from" Gygabyte Technology". It has a sound card built in. It also comes with a programme for "Sound Affects". Hit the icon for this programme and up comes what looks like an organ keyboard with knobs and whistles. You can change the sound to various environments like under water or in a bathroom or in an arena etc. There is also a karaoke set of buttons, giving effects marked from -4 up through 0 to +4. I have never, as far as I know used this programme, but it was set to underwater and the karaoki was at +4. How come? I have no idea. I set the environment to none and the karaoki to 0 and hey presto, everything is back to normal. What I cannot fathom is, why would anyone want this programme? stony ps. Thanks again for all the suggestions. If I get any more real problems, I shall return for help:D

I have run through all the settings that I can find, in control panel and everything appears to be at middle settings.and very normal. OTOH, what do I know?:( stony

Thanks for all the advise. I also had a sensible think about this and realised that there are too many things wrong for it to be the interface between the camera and the PC. I have just played a memory stick copy of the downloaded video, on my laptop. Why didn't I think of doing that before. The sound is perfect. Obviously the problem has to be with the sound card in my PC. Problem is that I suspect that it's a part of the mother board. From what Armageddon has posted, I can try out another sound card. I may even have an old one up in the loft. When it's resolved, I will post the results. stony PS. the last post was a mistake and I was too late to edit it.

Thanks for all the advise.

I have just discovered that CD's also have the same problem. I therefore suspect that the problem is a fault within the PC settings. Trouble is. I don't know which or what to alter. Any advice would be very welcome. thanks stony

ok. I have downloaded and run that exe file. There are a lot of choices in the doing of it but generally I selected all. It had no effect on the bad sound on utube video. I then again downloaded a section of the original video from my camera tape to offer a fresh try to the new codecs. No change, my voice still sounds like one of the 7 dwarfs but it is ok on the camera. Not sure where to go from here. stony

Thanks for the info. I have downloaded the suggested prog. It has given me three alternatives. klcodec520f.exe Which I did open up but it hasn't altered anything as regards to utube sound. k-lite_codec_pack_660_mega.exe and instacodec.exe I'm not sure if I should try each on or if I need all three to achieve anything. Can you please advise. Thanks stony btw, on the original screen for these programmes there was a statement saying ' before doing anything else carry out a free check of your registry. I stupidly followed that advice and found myself being told that there were 300 odd faults that needed rectifying and I could get rid of 15 for free but I had to purchase the prog to clear the rest. It took some trouble on my part to clear that programme off of my PC.

I found it difficult to place this question in a suitable spot so I hope that this one will be ok. My PC is a bit old. It has AMD 3ooo+ 1.8 GHz. 2 G ram. a K*Triton AGP8x motherboard and two hard drives with plenty of spare space. Op system is Win XP home. I have downloaded a video from my rather old Panasonic digital video camera onto my PC. the original video is on a mini cassette tape (PAL). and was downloaded using a firewire connection and using Windows Movie maker. The transition of the pictures was fine but the sound is not. My voice on the tape is as perfect as I am likely to make it but the transferred sound is distorted so that my voice sounds as if I have swallowed a bit of Helium. All of my enquiries so far have drawn a blank. One person has suggested that maybe I need the correct CODEC. I have now found out what that is but have no idea if it is the problem and if so, where I get the correct one and when got, what to do with it. Immediately after finding this problem with the sound on my video, I also noticed that I have the same affect showing on any utube video that I attempt to watch. I feel that this cannot be a coincidence. I also have become aware that utube and Adobe reader are somehow connected and that there is a similar problem with utube for a lot of folk. I should add that all other uses of sound on my PC are perfectly ok. I can play DVDs or run AV's with sound and no problems. I don't care too much about the utube problem but I do need to find a way of getting correct sound on my downloaded video's. Can anyone offer help or some idea that may lead to a solution? Thanks for reading this diatribe. stony

Hi. I've just joined and will be asking for help right away. I run both a PC desktop and a laptop using XP on both machines. I help out on our local U3A, group teaching mostly other old folk to use a computer for basics. I know a bit about the software and hardware, as one does after many years of using them but could not by any standard be called an expert oft any facet of computers. Thanks stony