No sound from DL'ed youtube files

[Andy2]

I DL'ed a few music instruction videos from youtube via youtubex.com to save and study. The video portion of the flv files play normally on the 2 media players (Xfmedia and Gxine Movie Player) that came with my Xubuntu distro, but there's no audio, which (of course) make them useless to me.
Is there a simple way to remedy this problem? If not, can someone recommend another player to try? Thank you for your help.

[mike_flow]

What about the VLC player, it works in both win and linux.
In gnome ( ubuntu ) totem is chosen by default as the flv player and I have not had any issues.
A few months ago I even found that it was very easy to change a flv file into mpg in linux. I know this could be a different topic, I am just trying make my point about linux friendlyness towards this format.

I wish it helps.

[Andy2]

I did some digging and arrived at the conclusion that I wasn't going to be able to solve the problem by locating some script and adding it to a bin file. I also became aware of some conversion software during my search, but I really didn't want to add that extra step unless necessary. VLC was one player that some people had success with, so I installed it via Synaptic. This was worse than either Xfmedia or Gxine - no sound OR video. I then installed Mplayer and found .flv happiness.

I wanted to avoid adding additional software. It's been my experience that such additions can lead to unintended and unwanted conflicts, but, well, sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.