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The video is great but there is absolutely no sound in the .mp4 files I'm downloading. I'm running Xubuntu 16.04LTS and have played them in VLC, Parole, and Videos. All have perfect video but no audio. I've checked that the sound is at 100% and that the mute button isn't clicked.
i will venture a guess that they have sound, but it doesn't playback.
do you have sound at all?
how are the videos encoded?
open them with mplayer or mpv, and post the terminal output.
btw, you've been here long enough to know that you should have provided more info in your OP.
Thanks ondoho. Yes, have sound. It plays on movies, browser videos, .mp3 files etc.
I don't know how they are encoded. I tried to track that down and got as far as the screenshot, then didn't know which to download.
I don't know how to open them with mplayer or mpv. I checked in the terminal and neither program is installed, but I wouldn't know how to open them there anyway.
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Hey Gregg_Bell ... I believe you need the proper AAC codec which is part of the gst-plugins-bad package. Could you check if that is installed on your system ? In many distros it is not by default.
i'm not getting audio on this either.
not in the browser, and not when playing it with mpv.
and i NEVER have problems witht mp4s.
mediainfo says there is an audio track, and it's it's AAC encoded.
My system is definitely capable of playing that.
therefore i surmise that this video has an audio track which is SILENT.
Hey Gregg_Bell ... I believe you need the proper AAC codec which is part of the gst-plugins-bad package. Could you check if that is installed on your system ? In many distros it is not by default.
Cheers,
Thanks Rick. I checked Synaptic. I don't have it but it's there. I was a little hesitant installing something called "bad" though. (LOL) I read the description in Synaptic and part of it went: 'GStreamer Bad Plug-ins is a set of plug-ins that aren't up to par compared to the rest.' Are you sure I'm not going to screw anything up by installing it?
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