DVD Player Troubleshooting: Fix DVD Player No Sound Issue on HDTV/Laptop

Ⅰ DVD player or DVD disc problems

★ Have a check on your DVD player. If the DVD player is inexpensive or far older, probably it's the high time to change a new one.

★ Check whether your DVD disc is in good condition physically and has some scratches or damages or not.

★ Figure out the DVD disc is homemade burnt or commercial one since the homemade disc and commercial disc utilize different codecs. So try to make it clear what type of files your DVD player supports and make sure your DVDs are in that format. If not, have a try on MacX DVD Ripper Pro, to 1:1 copy DVD (protected incl.) to USB flash drive with MPEG-2, ISO image, VOB, MKV, MP4, AVI, HEVC, H264, etc. formats. Thus, you can play DVD movie on HDTV via USB port in digital format without using DVD player. Free download Windows or Mac version to have a test.

Ⅱ DVD player connection or cable issues

★ A potential reason to DVD player no sound on TV trouble is related to the connection, whether the connection is proper and firm in a place or not.

★ Make sure your cables are in right spot on both. The DVD player, for composite cable should be in order with yellow white and red. As for HDTV, you're suggested to look at the TV back where they are at should say Video 1 2 3 whichever one has the red yellow white cables and say Video IN. match colors then try.

★ Some users also meet the plight: has pictures but on sound on DVD player through HDMI cable. In such case, you can check if your HDMI sound is turned to "On", for some devices with HDMI output do some "automatic detection" to swift audio outputs on or off accordingly. If this still doesn't fix DVD player no audio problem, you can consider to ditch away the faulty HDMI cable and change a new one.

Ⅲ DVD player settings problems

★ Audio not working on DVD player might result from incorrect menu settings. Check for volume and mute to adjust sound settings back to normal.
★ Check if your DVD player switch settings is correct.
★ Another possible cause to no sound coming from DVD player is the selected audio track that the device might be powerless to handle. If so, try another audio track to have a test.

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Ⅰ DVD player software problems

★ Check the DVD player software volume settings, muted or not.
★ Exit your DVD player software and reboot it again.

★ If you're using VLC media player to play DVDs on computer, you have a fair chance to meet the VLC audio video out of sync problem or VLC no sound when playing DVD. No choice but to resort to best VLC alternative - 5KPlayer to play DVD on PC without sound issue.

★ If using windows media player, eject disc and insert again. If nothing good happens, reload the sound drive and see if that troubleshoots the problem. Follow these steps:
a. Open Device Manager.
b. Opt for "Sound, video and game controllers" and expand the same.
c. Highlight the driver, right-click and then choose "Uninstall".
d. Restart your laptop.
e. install the latest audio drivers downloaded from the manufacturer's website.

★ Play your DVD content using the built-in 64-bit DVD player app if you've upgraded to macOS Mojave, which might be beneficial to solve no sound from DVD player issue.

★ Providing the above solutions don't work, the best once-for-all solution is to play DVD movies with digital format rather than DVD disc.
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