O'Brien Cloud Engineering

Extracting audio from a video is a fairly simple process with FFmpeg. There are several ways to do this, and you may find that one method suits over another. Let's take a look.

Perhaps you have an old AVI video file that won't play on some modern applications, or would like to ensure your media can be played on the web. The H.264 codec is widely supported across all major browsers, and on both Apple and Android devices. Let's take a look.

Getting FFmpeg installed and configured on your system can be tricky if you haven't done it before. Here's how to do just that, with guides below for MacOS, Ubuntu / Debian, and Windows systems.