VLC and BS Player no longer playing audio in Youtube videos

[darth schmuck]

Installed Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2952664). Now VLC and BS Player will not play audio in Anything recently downloaded from Youtube.com Uninstalled both, rebooted, re-installed, rebooted, checked for updates, rebooted and still nothing. Checked both forums (VLC & BS Player) for each program and similar topics dated back to 2008 but nothing applicable since 2012 and those were with different versions. Sound plays in other movies for both pieces of software and youtube.com plays fine in my browsers (Firefox & Chrome Dragon). BUT when I try to open a video (mp4) recently downloaded from Youtube.com, my browsers report that the file is corrupted. Earlier videos (mp4) downloaded last year play fine in both programs and in both browsers. Any input would be welcomed and thank you in advance...

[DB83]

I believe yt changed some of their codecs recently.

You may like to post a mediainfo report (text mode) of a video that has no sound or even a link to that video.

Of course, it may be a bad update but we need a sample to judge.

[zing269]

I had a similar problem with some youtube videos, although I only grabbed the audio using the keepvid site. When I tried to play the file with MPC-HC I also got a corrupt file error. Remuxing with mp4box took care of the problem. I had assumed it was a problem with keepvid but perhaps youtube is doing something wonky with the files.

[darth schmuck]

here is the text mediainfo on one video:
General
Complete name : C:\Users\REDACTED\Documents\My Music\Fun_We_Are_Young_ft_Janelle_Monáe_ACOUSTIC_h d1080.mp4
Format : dash
Codec ID : dash
File size : 70.7 MiB
Duration : 4mn 35s
Overall bit rate : 2 155 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2014-01-07 03:28:25
Tagged date : UTC 2014-01-07 03:28:25
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 3 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 4mn 35s
Bit rate : 2 152 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Minimum frame rate : 23.974 fps
Maximum frame rate : 24.220 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.043
Stream size : 70.6 MiB (100%)
Encoded date : UTC 2014-01-07 03:28:25
Tagged date : UTC 2014-01-07 03:28:25

Does that shed any light??

[darth schmuck]

and thnx for the quick responses

[gastrof]

Anyone tried aTubeCatcher to store the videos?

That's what's always worked for me. Be a shame if it suddenly stopped working.

[roma_turok]

The video file you trying to play don't have Audio track according to mediainfo
Simple download again with Freemake Video Downloader

[darth schmuck]

thnx for the assistance. will try the proferred programs

[DB83]

Ditto the above. But this is musak so there should be audio.

We had better get the actual yt link

[roma_turok]

Ditto the above. But this is musak so there should be audio.

We had better get the actual yt link

This the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLGhPHzxjc
also after download file size is 75 mb and his file size is 70 mb

[DB83]

Ditto the above. But this is musak so there should be audio.

We had better get the actual yt link

This the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLGhPHzxjc
also after download file size is 75 mb and his file size is 70 mb

I grabbed the 360p version with TubeDigger. Sound there as well.

[jagabo]

Some videos at Youtube now stream as two files. One for the video. Another for the audio. You need to use a downloader that handles that. This add-on for Firefox will automatically download both streams and mux them together:

http://www.cys-audiovideodownloader.com/

As noted, it requires ffmpeg to do the muxing.