Vegas 5 question...

[WideShot]

OK now that explains a lot. It says that the problem is not necessarily having to do with WMP or any of the codecs themselves, but instead probably a hardware issue with your drivers or a Vegas problem.

OK FYI Microsoft Sound Mapper is a built in feature of windows. I dont believe it ever needs to be replaced, only that there are occasionally problems with it.

Try going in Vegas to OPTIONS > Preferences > Audio Device Type and changing the Audi Device Type to "Windows Classic Wave driver" and click OK see if that changes it.

[CLBFAN]

lol. Now theres a new problem. A box comes up and reads:

"An Error Occurred while starting playback. An Unsupported media type was requested.

I click on details...

"The playback device Modem #0 Line Playback does not support the current output format.
The playback device Modem #0 Line Playback does not exist."

[Banned: CootDog]

Sounds like there is a hardware problem.. when was the last time you defragged your drive?
Have you checked your system settings to see if there are any conflicts?

Have you installed any new hardware or software in the machine?

Let us know.

[CLBFAN]

I installed Ad-Aware and thats it. How can I check and what does defragging have anything to do with it?

[Jim007]

I also have the same problem with sony vegas 6, the message 'The playback device Microsoft Sound Mapper does not exist' only occurs when i move the the time ruler!! Is there another audio recording device besides the Microsoft Sound Mapper which i could download to hopefully fix this problem???

Any info regarding this problem would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[CowardHusky]

Go

Options---->Preferences---->Audio Device Type---->and change it from Sound Mapper to something else.
I changed mine to ASIO and it works fine.