XBOX 360 video player- randomly, no sound!

December 20, 2008 6:05 PM

XBOX 360 video player - only video player! - randomly stops playing audio. WTF?

Ever since they added Netflix, and since downloading Connect360, I'm doing it all the time, and this weird problem has started- audio randomly stops. Then it won't start again until.. randomly. Sometimes the next day.

It's just the audio for the XBOX video player- the menu makes sounds, games play sound, DVDs play sound. But ANY video- streamed over Connect 360, through Netflix, or downloaded to the XBOX hard drive- no audio!

posted by xmutex to Technology (4 answers total)

Mmmm, I haven't ever had any issues with this, neither in Netflix nor with streaming audio over the network from my computer with Connect360.

Does the problem stop if you reboot the 360?
posted by InsanePenguin at 7:51 PM on December 20, 2008

Response by poster: InsanePenguin- no, it's random. Sometimes I just come back the next day and it's OK again. I can turn on/off the 360 over and over and it won't do anything.
posted by xmutex at 8:15 PM on December 20, 2008

This is a bug in the new dashboard update related to HDMI audio. Here is a temporary fix.

posted by robofunk at 10:45 PM on December 20, 2008

This is a bug in the new dashboard update related to HDMI audio. Here is a temporary fix.

That may be the issue, I don't use HDMI, so I don't know.
posted by InsanePenguin at 6:32 AM on December 21, 2008