I just got back on the thread...do we have this Youtube of Tokyo Summer Sonic?! It's great! I know we had the DL earlier today.
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The guy at 3:19 I FEEL YOU MAN. I WAS THE SAME
If anyone plans to download video or audio from this YouTube, do it quickly!!! It will very likely be blocked very shortly! The company that broadcasts this in Japan is known for being very aggressive about taking down YouTubes.
Can anyone UL that Summer Sonic video so we can DL it and get sound? :(
Did you read my previous post about the sound? It is not a problem with the download. It is a problem with some media players not being able to play the AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio format in the MP4 file. See my previous post (page 9) for a technical explanation.
Last Edit: Sept 27, 2014 23:10:04 GMT -5 by DancyGeorgia
Can anyone UL that Summer Sonic video so we can DL it and get sound? :(
Did you read my previous post about the sound? It is not a problem with the download. It is a problem with some media players not being able to play the AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio format in the MP4 file. See my previous post (page 9) for a technical explanation.
OK, there is a way to change the audio format of a video in a container file (remember from my post on p.9 that MP4 is a "containter" format) without touching the video using a command line software called ffmpeg. I did that and changed the audio from AC-3 format to AAC format within the MP4 file. BUT, now the audio plays fine in both Windows Media Player and QuickTime, but the video still does not. WMP keeps telling me that my PC is running low on memory and to close some programs. QuickTime plays the video with numerous short pauses, like it cannot keep up with playing the video in real time. Looking at the video format with MediaInfo software, I see that this video inside of the MP4 file is in AVC format, like a YouTube download would be, but it is "interlaced" rather than "progressive". Older TVs all played "interlaced" video while most digital TVs now can play "progressive" which is better. I think that WMP and QuickTime have problems with the interlaced video.
So, to fix this video to play in Windows Media Player or Quicktime, I will have to re-encode the video to both a different video and a different audio format within the MP4 file. That will take longer and some trial and error to get something good. And, both the video and audio quality will be degraded some in the conversion.
Really, it is better to just get VLC Media Player which is FREE and available on both Windows and Mac!!! VLC is a MUCH better player than both Windows Media Player and QuickTime. Plus, VLC can play DVDs and Blu-Rays.
I downloaded it too. I'm on a Mac and it downloaded as a .MP4 file format. Can't play it at all. It looks like it should open in QuickTime--but doesn't. Waaaaa!
Short simple answer:
This file will play in VLC Media Player which is a free software available for Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs. It will NOT play with Windows Media Player or QuickTime or even QuickTime Pro. It will also likely play with any free or commercial software that specifically plays DVDs and/or Blu-Rays. For example, it does play in CyberLink PowerDVD on my Windows PC.
Technical answer:
This is because not all MP4 files are alike! MP4 is NOT a video format. MP4 is a CONTAINER format. A container is a file format that "contains" 1 or more "streams" - video is a steam, audio is a stream, and sub-title text is a stream, all of which can be contained in the same container file. And there can be more than 1 sub-title text stream in a container file, e.g., separate sub-title text streams for different languages. And there can be more than 1 audio stream in a container file, again, maybe in different languages, or even just a different audio mix. For example, one of the 2012 London QAL video files has 2 different audio streams with 2 different mixes of the audio from 2 different sources. (ETA - The video play handles mixing the video strean with the selected audio and/or sub-title text streams at play time.)
There is a free software (available on both Windows and Mac) called MediaInfo which can tell you exactly what the video and audio formats are inside of any video or audio file. Looking at a MP4 file downloaded from YouTube, the audio is usually in AAC format, which is the default format for iTunes and all things Apple. (The AAC audio format is basically the same thing as a M4A audio format, just a different name for the same thing in most cases.) Looking at the Supersonic downloaded MP4 file in question with MediaInfo, the audio is in AC-3 format, which is the Dolby Digital audio format used on DVDs. This is why WMP and QuickTime will not play the audio in this file but other media players with more support for playing DVDs will play this format.
Other common video container file types that you may see Adam/QAL video in are TS, MTS, M2TS (same thing as MTS).
ETA - In contrast, a MPG video file is NOT a CONTAINER file! In a MPG file, the video and audio are tightly woven into a single "stream" and there is no need for mixing of the video and audio at play time.
It plays on my Windows Media Player just fine!
Last Edit: Sept 28, 2014 2:20:53 GMT -5 by lulu1265
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