Sound only plays from one application at a time

I've been having a problem recently with my laptop where it will play sound just fine, but only for one application.
Explained differently, if I try to start anything that would play sound, and if something else is already playing sound, there won't be any sound from the newer source, and if I want it to play sound, I would have to mute the first source and restart the second.
Another oddity to this problem is that I can work around this problem by first muting the first source, then starting up the second source, and un-muting the first. This can also be done with additional sources by muting everything that came before it. However, this does not work in every case, and having to do so everytime is rather tedious. I've looked for a few solutions already (Checking drivers, etc.) but nothing seems to work.
Laptop: Satellite L755D-S5104
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1

Hi V07,
Here is what I've notice when Im playing a video sound using K-Lite Codec [Media Player Classic] then while the sound plays on the background. I started to play the game LOL (Leagua of Legends) and it provides me both sound the LOL and video sound with no issues.
I tried playing video using Media Player Classic and open another video using VLC Player both of this application works fine with no conflict. Both of the player provide good quality sounds.
You can try installing K-Lite Codec [Media Player Classic] and VLC player.
K-Lite Code for Win7
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
VLC Player for Win7/Win8
http://www.codecguide.com/download_other.htm#videolan
Im hoping it will work to your laptops because on my Toshiba laptop it works perfectly.
BTW IF YOU THINK IT HELPS ALOT. PLEASE DONT BE AFRAID TO CLICK KUDOS star^_^
- cokies

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