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I downloaded a music video from Youtube to load onto my NAS but the .mkv isn't supported. I reformatted the video using handbrake to mpeg4, the video plays but with no sound. I even tried WinFF with the same result, video plays but with no sound. Has anyone got any ideas on how to get both video and sound to play?
I downloaded a music video from Youtube to load onto my NAS but the .mkv isn't supported. I reformatted the video using handbrake to mpeg4, the video plays but with no sound. I even tried WinFF with the same result, video plays but with no sound. Has anyone got any ideas on how to get both video and sound to play?
cheers
gael
did you look to see what audio that movie had when you resamled it with handbreak? did you look up into the menu bar in your vlc app and click audio then click audoi track to see if it even had a sound track attached to it yet?
it too could be just a bad file result in downloading it too ....
Running a media file in terminal with a terminal media player like mplayer is good for seeing error messages on why no audio is playing. I even do lousy screen recording this way where audio is picked up on my mic from my TV <sounds terrible since I am a novice>
did you look to see what audio that movie had when you resamled it with handbreak? did you look up into the menu bar in your vlc app and click audio then click audoi track to see if it even had a sound track attached to it yet?
it too could be just a bad file result in downloading it too ....
I did as you suggested and checked for an audio file in VLC. Yes, it plays .mkv on my computer but when I reformat to mpeg4 or any other format I appear to lose the sound ... I don't understand why! As I wrote earlier, my NAS won't play the file that was directly downloaded from Youtube ... reformatting it loses the sound but the video plays just fine.
I'm open to any ideas
Running a media file in terminal with a terminal media player like mplayer is good for seeing error messages on why no audio is playing. I even do lousy screen recording this way where audio is picked up on my mic from my TV <sounds terrible since I am a novice>
I made the quick 30 second video for a gtk 2 , synaptic, question/answer in a post on another forum.
I don't think there is anything wrong with the sound, it's just that it is in .mkv format is incompatible with my NAS. I need to reformat the video/audio so that it plays with sound. Other video's (mpeg4) that I have downloaded have worked perfectly well. I need to acquire a program that will reformat keeping video and sound intact. Here's hoping
I did as you suggested and checked for an audio file in VLC. Yes, it plays .mkv on my computer but when I reformat to mpeg4 or any other format I appear to lose the sound ... I don't understand why! As I wrote earlier, my NAS won't play the file that was directly downloaded from Youtube ... reformatting it loses the sound but the video plays just fine.
I'm open to any ideas
I've never actually came across this problem, i mainly use mplayer and vlc for videos. Handbreak to reformate / resmapling ... I know in the audio defaults is where you can adjust and add a different type of codec for audio, have you tried making a copy of your moivie first, then run that copy through Handbreak changing the audio settings or adding pass through audio types so that hopefully vlc will catch one of the formats to get sound, or even trying to down load that movie again to see maybe it is just a bad copy, being that the person that recourded it screwed up the sound to it, I've had a few of them like that too. where it sticks in the player skipping frames or out of sync so I just run it through handbreak to try and fix it.
Is it possible that there is something in the video / audio coding that has been altered to stop people from reformatting the music to play on anything other than the PC? I have other music video's that I have reformatted to play outwith the PC and they play without problems. Have the makers of these video's recoded the video's to stop people reformatting them? I don't know the answer, does anyone know the answer?
Is it possible that there is something in the video / audio coding that has been altered to stop people from reformatting the music to play on anything other than the PC? I have other music video's that I have reformatted to play outwith the PC and they play without problems. Have the makers of these video's recoded the video's to stop people reformatting them? I don't know the answer, does anyone know the answer?
Feel free to post the link to the video, otherwise all we can do is speculate.
You can use ffprobe (part of ffmpeg tools) to investigate a media file as well.
I got it played it on both VLC and MPlayer without problems had sound and video on both. what downloader are you using? ME, firefox with plug in -> "easy youtube video downloader"
I got it played it on both VLC and MPlayer without problems had sound and video on both. what downloader are you using? ME, firefox with plug in -> "easy youtube video downloader"
I download using 'youtube-dl'. As I say, it plays okay on the computer (vlc, gnome Mplayer)the problem is when I reformat to mpeg4 through 'handbrake' or 'WinFF' ... the video plays okay, but with no sound ... any help with settings would help!
I download using 'youtube-dl'. As I say, it plays okay on the computer (vlc, gnome Mplayer)the problem is when I reformat to mpeg4 through 'handbrake' or 'WinFF' ... the video plays okay, but with no sound ... any help with settings would help!
gael
well now I got a re-download it again then run it through handbrake . . default settings first .. hold on...
sorry this took so long I was checking out the video lol
this is the correct video yes? I left it at the default audio settings you can see them in this image. it worked fine for me so I am not really sure what up with your set up. you can change modify the audio setting you know. just put yourself into experimentalinal mode
I download using 'youtube-dl'. As I say, it plays okay on the computer (vlc, gnome Mplayer)the problem is when I reformat to mpeg4 through 'handbrake' or 'WinFF' ... the video plays okay, but with no sound ... any help with settings would help!
gael
I just downloaded the video from the link you supplied so I can see for myself. Using
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