All of my browsers can't play any sounds anymore - Windows Sounds are just find (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer) - Adobe Flash No Sound WaveMapper Trick

[devnullius @ gmail]

If you cannot play or hear any sounds anymore in all of your
webbrowsers, read on.

Solutions that did not work:
re-installing Chrome,
removing and re-installing all flash / quicktime / avi / divx /
whatever plugins and programs you might have,
re-installing the sound drivers suitable for your pc's soundcard.

What helps is the following solution, which gives you INSTANT sound of
whatever you have playing currently...

Enjoy and... Peace!


Devvie

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(Ctrl-C Ctrl-V FROM:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/08/15/adobe-flash-no-sound-wavemapper-trick/all-comments/#comments
)

Flash No Sound WaveMapper Solution

Launch Registry Editor by typing regedit at Run command.
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
\Drivers32

On the right pane, and check for existance of “wavemapper” registry
subkey, the mail culprit causing Flash no sound. If not found, create
a new String value named “wavemapper”, and give the entry value
“msacm32.drv”.
If wavemapper entry is already existed, ensure that its value data is
“msacm32.drv”.

Also ensure and verify that the msacm32.drv driver file is existing in
C:\Windows\System32 folder. If the file is missing in that location,
search for other copy of msacm32.drv in the computer, or copy that
file from another system.

General background, also Ctrl-C'd, Ctrl-V'd : )

Occasionally users may encounter problem that there is no sound output
from the Windows system especially when trying to playback a Flash
based contents by installing the latest version of Adobe Flash 9. The
symptom is obvious when viewing video clips on online video sharing
sites such as YouTube, MetaCafe, Daily Motion, MySpace Video, Google
Video and etc. Video can be played back, but no sound, voice, or audio
is heard.

There is a general Flash no sound registry fix to solve all driver
mapping problem that may exists. But if you don’t want to touch so
many registry keys, try the following trick which is also a better
solution – direct to the cause.

[devnullius @ gmail]

Original discussion with more solutions here:
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-19119-no-sound-from-web-browsers-chrome-or-firefox