I often download a few YouTube videos to a USB stick using Real Downloader for later viewing (without commercials) on my TV. Lately I’ve noticed that some videos with English audio on YouTube play back with German audio when I plug the USB stick into my TV and play the same video on the TV.
Any ideas what’s going on? Is there some setting that I’ve accidentally changed on YouTube, Real Downloader, or elsewhere? I can only find a “default language” setting on my TV, which is set to English.
YouTube has recently introduced an automatic caption translation and multi-language auto-dubbing feature. Could be related to that.
My guess is that the video might have its “default” audio track set to German. When you watch it on your web browser, your settings tell Google to switch it to English for you, but maybe the downloader app doesn’t respect that and just downloads the default German version.
Do you have a link to a video (any of them) where this happens? And what is this Real Downloader app, can you link to that too?
If you’re at all comfortable on the command line, yt-dlp should let you specify which exact tracks to download (though it’s not super straightforward syntax).
If you can link to an example video and the downloader you’re currently using, I’ll take a look for ya and see if there’s an easier way.
Here is one video: Slowly But Surely!
Real Downloader is part of Real Player, which can be downloaded for free. www.real.com
That video has a bunch of dubbed audio tracks available on Youtube. The order of the tracks appears to have German (Germany) first and the default original track (American) last. If your TV plays the German track, it is ignoring which track is the default and simply playing the first one.
I used Jdownloader, completely German free
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