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Separate Sound from Video

I would like to separate the sound from the video in a video clip on my iPhone to use as background on my web site. Is there a way to do this?
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Extract audio from a video on iPhone or iPad
While you can play around with iMovie to detach audio from your video, this can be tougher than you think.
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After trying a handful of free apps, one that stands out is MP3 Converter -Audio Extractor. It’s available for both iPhone and iPad and is super simple to use. Open the app, allow it to access your photos, and then do the following.
unless you can do this on a Mac, you need an app for that!


You can also use ffmpeg or one of the many ffmpeg GUIs.

If you only have a single clip to process, you can also just attach your video file + someone can extract the audio for you.
A simple ffmpeg example might be useful.

# For a given video...
imac> avinfo 2020-11-10-nonce-debug.mp4
2020-11-10-nonce-debug.mp4
   length: 00:03:40.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 377 kb/s
   stream: #0:0(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, mono, fltp, 125 kb/s (default)
   stream: #0:1(und): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 250 kb/s, 1 fps, 1 tbr, 100 tbn, 50 tbc (default)

# Extract the audio, -nv=skip video, -c:a copy=copy audio stream with no transcode
ffmpeg -i 2020-11-10-nonce-debug.mp4 -vn -c:a copy 2020-11-10-nonce-debug.aac

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I will try the apps suggested when I meet with the file owner this next week.
Will any of these suggestions work on a Windows PC? 
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