Hi,

> I installed ffmpeg on my mac to convert to webm and do a test. 
> The test went well. The problem is that now on my mac when I try to use vlc 
> or quicktime to watch a video, 
> they no longer play audio. 
> I have audio on my computer if I watch a YouTube video, but if I try to see 
> it from my files on my computer, 
> I don't have audio ....? any suggestions?

That had me confused, I thought you meant installing ffmpeg resulted in audio 
being crippled not only in VLC but also in QuickTime (?!)

> Let me tell you what I did to convert the file:
> 
> ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -c vp9 -b:v 0 -crf 41 newvideo.webm

So the problem is after you convert, there’s no audio in the output file, right?

I am not exactly sure what is happening here, I would expect it to print an 
error about invalid codec, since you’ve set vp9 for all streams including audio.

Also, if using encoder name “vp9” actually worked, are you maybe using a really 
old version?

Try updating ffmpeg, probably want libvpx and libopus as well, and re-run that 
command without specifying codec. I’m pretty sure vp9 and opus are default for 
webm. 

Or if you can’t update for some reason or want to check if that is actually the 
problem, you could try specifying codecs per stream, for example set just the 
video encoder and let the audio default to whatever it is, like -c:v vp9. 

The console output is usually even more helpful in troubleshooting, plus it 
shows which build you are using. You should include it in along with the 
command line in thee future. 

Regards,
Ted Park
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