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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon jely2002

When I try to download videos in MP4 format, there is no audio

Open amarrero13 opened this issue 2 years ago • 7 comments

When I try to download videos in MP4 format, there is no audio

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Set Attempt to use output format as "MP4"
  2. Force Audio output to Auto
  3. Download a video
  4. See error no audio on video

Expected behavior There should be audio

Additional info (please complete the following information):

  • OS: Windows 10
  • Downloaded most recent version of gui

- Log of download indicates the following: "Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv."

amarrero13 avatar Jun 08 '22 08:06 amarrero13

same on osx 12.4 (m1 mac)

maximilianotaverna avatar Jun 12 '22 04:06 maximilianotaverna

Have you tried switching the audio codec? go to options > advanced > Show available codecs to download Then select any audio codec.

ghost avatar Jun 20 '22 17:06 ghost

I am also having this problem

BentzStream avatar Jun 30 '22 01:06 BentzStream

I have tried every codec and none work

BentzStream avatar Jun 30 '22 01:06 BentzStream

I am also having this problem

Weird, are you having no audio while editing in a video editor perhaps? Or is it by using a media player like VLC?

ghost avatar Jun 30 '22 14:06 ghost

Same issue here, MacOS 12.4, when output set to MP4 (needed so I don't need to re-encode an MKV with handbrake) downloads no longer have audio in Quicktime/Final Cut Pro.

Tried with a few links, same issue. Downloading audio only works.

Edit: Tried this on a duplicate machine with IINA and Elmedia Player installed. The videos downloaded DO have audio, it's just no longer in a format being recognised as compatible for native Mac apps e.g Final Cut Pro or Quicktime Player, which states: 'This file contains some media that isn’t compatible with QuickTime Player'. IINA and Elmedia Player play the same files with working audio.

Is there any way to force a specific audio codec to be used during the download/conversion for a combined video+audio download as that would perhaps be a way around this?

mwsimmonite avatar Jul 28 '22 12:07 mwsimmonite

It looks like this may be related to these issues which apparently are resolved for a future release? https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui/pull/265#issue-1087207012 https://github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui/issues/258#issuecomment-999880410

When I manually choose M4A audio instead of OPUS audio works fine in FCP and Quicktime as per the workaround in the above comment.

mwsimmonite avatar Jul 28 '22 13:07 mwsimmonite