recent video downloads have no audio
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 5:14 pm
I have used FlashGot for several years and never had a problem until recently, but I can't tell when it happened because I didn't try to play the videos I downloaded until long after I got them.
The problem is that the video downloads fine (usually as mp4), but there is no audio.
I have one from January that is fine, but everything from May is not.
I suspected my video player(GOMplayer), but looking in the playback info, it shows no audio track. And playing it on my phone across wifi (same file, different player) gets the same result.
I had the latest FlashGot (1.5.6.13), but I saw some changes in the same timeframe, so I reverted to 1.5.6.12 to test and got the same result.
All the videos I haven't inadvertently deleted have been from youtube, so I'm thinking that perhaps they changed how the video is played and therefore what FlashGot sees as the default to download. I use the HTML5 player by default on youtube, probably since September 2015, so I can use the speed controls. Would that affect it?
I did wade through the list of files available for download on youtube and found that if I choose DASH and then one of those videos, it had audio, but that made no sense since they are listed as separate audio and video tracks.
So my question is: Does anyone else have this problem? and can FlashGot use a better default (one with both audio and video)?
The problem is that the video downloads fine (usually as mp4), but there is no audio.
I have one from January that is fine, but everything from May is not.
I suspected my video player(GOMplayer), but looking in the playback info, it shows no audio track. And playing it on my phone across wifi (same file, different player) gets the same result.
I had the latest FlashGot (1.5.6.13), but I saw some changes in the same timeframe, so I reverted to 1.5.6.12 to test and got the same result.
All the videos I haven't inadvertently deleted have been from youtube, so I'm thinking that perhaps they changed how the video is played and therefore what FlashGot sees as the default to download. I use the HTML5 player by default on youtube, probably since September 2015, so I can use the speed controls. Would that affect it?
I did wade through the list of files available for download on youtube and found that if I choose DASH and then one of those videos, it had audio, but that made no sense since they are listed as separate audio and video tracks.
So my question is: Does anyone else have this problem? and can FlashGot use a better default (one with both audio and video)?