Audio not downloaded from Atresplayer videos

[Ashley Cara]

Example URL: downloads only the video but not the audio. Free account is required to view 720p and premium for 1080p:

https://www.atresplayer.com/lasexta/programas/salvados/temporada-19/el-dilema-de-amazon_635c099102f3b0e4b6239746/

[mjs]

I'm guessing the audio is below the video variants. Video variants have a resolution for example 1920x1080 , 1280x720.

Below those there should be something which has a time matching the duration of the video. This is probably the audio.

Have a look and come back with your feedback if you succeeded. If not provide a screen shot of what you see.

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A vdh user

[Wild Willy]

This sounds so much like what this other user just posted:

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/kCHKDuk9GSU

The advice in there should apply to you, too.

[Ashley Cara]

Video Download Helper 7.6.0. I don't see any audio track, only several video tracks at different resolution. See attachment.

[mjs]

Exactly what I said in my response. That's your audio - HLS streaming - 1:45:50 - MP4

The one below 426x240.

[Ashley Cara]

yeah but the video does not last 1:45:50 instead it lasts 52:55

[Ashley Cara]

You are right, that was the audio although the displayed duration does not match real duration and the format is .mp4 which is a video format not audio format. The content is AAC LC 132 kb/s so maybe the extension should be another.

[mjs]

The .mp4 audio can be converted to another format such as .acc  .m4a and then you can merge it with the video. See how you go with it.

[Ashley Cara]

Thank you all with MP4Box I could convert the mp4 to aac then with ffmpeg merge them now I have the video with audio embedded!!!

[Wild Willy]

[Wild Willy]

Yes, MP4 is a video format. But there are also MP4 files that consist of only an audio
track, no video track. You can merge audio-only MP4 with video-only MP4 using the merge
tool within VDH. But it seems you already know about other tools that can do the same
job. There is no need to first convert the audio-only MP4 to any other format. By the
way, audio-only MP4 is equivalent to MP3.

And since you already know about ffmpeg, you could have just downloaded the video track &
the audio track in a single invocation of ffmpeg. You just supply 2 -i input files & a
single output file, which I believe is exactly what you did with the 2 files you had
already downloaded separately. That tells ffmpeg to create the output file from the
video & audio in the input files. The difference is that for what you did, your -i
parameter values were file names on your system. To do it in one step, your -i parameter
values would be URLs.

[Wild Willy]

I have seen that double-duration thing in VDH on occasion. I don't know what causes it.
As long as what you download comes out to be the right duration, I wouldn't worry about
it.

[Ashley Cara]

The double duration is explained here:

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/srWrkOLXIQs

The rest is working well.