Why is there silence in some YouTube videos? [Archive]

LonelyPixel

16th April 2022, 18:49

I hear it often that there are minutes of silence in YouTube videos. It's music videos and large parts are just blanked out. The video is still there but the audio is completely missing. Does anybody know the reason for this? Does Google lose data? I mean, the video apparently was complete when it was uploaded, why would anyone upload a video that's so heavily broken?

Here are some samples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F35xoJOxamg from 1h20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VMW01ZsQxg from 2h19

Emulgator

16th April 2022, 19:06

The copyright holder might have objected, so the audio stream had to be decoupled/muted/deleted.