Audio missing from downloaded video

[Dan Dickerson]

I am trying to download the video from Fine Woodworking.

https://www.finewoodworking.com/2020/03/20/how-to-store-hide-glue

When I download the file, the video is fine, but there is no audio. I have seen the other conversations but I don't see any sign of the audio tracks. Any ideas? If I can get this to work, it is worth paying for the lifetime Premium membership.

[jcv...@gmail.com]

hi,

it seems this one has the sound.

jerome

[Dan Dickerson]

I am new to this, so please forgive any "stupid" questions.

I am still having problems. I changed my settings to download HLS to M2TS to match your screen. When I downloaded the file, there was still no audio.

Are there other settings I need to change? (M2TS vs MP4 did not seem to make a difference.)

I running:

Video DownloadHelper

Version 7.4.0

Browser locale: en-US

Production build

Built on Tue Dec 15 2020 17:14:16 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)

Build options: browser=firefox

Found companion app: VdhCoApp 1.6.0

Once I get the audio working, how did you determine that this one had audio? Do I have to download all of them to find out?

thanks,

Dan

[jcv...@gmail.com]

yes, unfortunately when sound and videos are available in different streams you have to try them to find the good ones. Then you can merge them with the new feature.

jerome

[Wild Willy]

For Jerome:

This page uses the Brightcove player, same as the Metropolitan Opera.  We do have a master manifest here.  The manifest begins with one audio stream paired with one video stream, for 3 such pairs.  The fourth audio stream is shared by the last 4 video streams.  So that's 4 audio-only streams and 7 video-only streams.  Curiously, even though there are 4 audio streams identified in the manifest, I get only 1 of the audio streams displayed in VDH.  Which one is it?  I can't tell.  Well, I suppose I could match up the VDH Details with the manifest but I'm too lazy.  There are also I-FRAME entries here.  I have never figured out what those are for.

For Dan:

In general, the first entries in the VDH menu show the available video streams in descending order of video resolution.  These are, in cases such as this, video streams that have no audio tracks.  Following these, there are usually some streams listed in the VDH menu that seem like they could be anything.  These are the ones that are usually the audio streams that have no video tracks.  In the case of this video, even though I can see that there are actually 4 distinct audio tracks, VDH displays only one of them.  I can't tell which of the 4 it is.  I would go out on a limb here & say that it doesn't matter which audio track you download.  They're all for the same video so I would hope any one of them would work, in particular, the one that VDH displays.  I would dearly love to post some images but this new Google Groups interface won't let me attach images.  So you use VDH to download your video without audio stream and your audio without video stream.  That's 2 separate downloads in VDH.  You can then play the 2 downloaded files, as is, synchronously in VLC.  However, it is possible to weld the audio & video files into a single file.  To do that, use the tool at the bottom of the VDH menu that says "Aggregate local audio and video files."

[Aiman Max]

I'm downloading videos but only the video file is there and the audio is entirely missing. It's not a separate file either so I can't use the aggregation tool. I do not see an audio only file in the page hits list either. Anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks!

[Wild Willy]

Somebody might know if you'd post a URL to one or a few examples of the problem you're observing.

[Wild Willy]

** Reply to message from Butch <spam protected> on Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:25:12 -0700 (PDT)

This wouldn't be the first time the Met changed their format. I believe last March they offered
the very first 2 nights on one platform & then switched. I see you're getting something from the
On Demand area. For the operas you can get off the link on the home page, the subtitles were
initially available as streams with their own stream manifests. At some point, I think it was last
August, they changed that so that the subtitles are now available in a simple .vtt file. I don't
think the Met is concerned with people who download. They appear to be focused on making their
content available for streaming interactively. Anything they do is without regard to people who
download. So anything they change is fine as long as streaming isn't affected. You'd have to
admit that if all you're doing is streaming, you wouldn't notice these changes. That seems to be
all they care about, which is fine. We just need to accept however that affects downloading & roll
with it.