KynikossDragonn said:
Yeah you have to have FFmpeg installed, I don't know how you'd go about doing that on MacOS but it's very simple under Windows (there's self-contained static windows builds) and every Linux distribution packages it also so it's simple to install in Linux as well.

Apple wall garden's their OS so hard these days I'm not sure if it's even possible to get a FFmpeg dmg package for it.

thank you for your help and sorry for the late response. i have downloaded homebrew and ffmpeg and i have the video i would like to convert. i am typing

ffmpeg -i videotitle.mp4 videotitle.webm

but it says that no such file or directory exists. is "i" supposed to be a variable, or am i not entering enough information?

garfieldfromgarfield said:
thank you for your help and sorry for the late response. i have downloaded homebrew and ffmpeg and i have the video i would like to convert. i am typing

ffmpeg -i videotitle.mp4 videotitle.webm

but it says that no such file or directory exists. is "i" supposed to be a variable, or am i not entering enough information?

Looks good enough for a test run. That error may indicate you haven't quoted the input filename correctly (if it has spaces or other special characters). If it does have special characters and you don't already know how to correctly quote filenames, renaming the file to avoid that is probably simplest.

I guess one other alternative is that you're not in the correct directory.

@garfieldfromgarfield: and this is why I always hate it when people ask for help, not because I don't mind helping but I exclusively use FFmpeg these days and for most people I would have to start explaining the basics of CLI.
Technically on windows you can also just copy-paste the command in notepad, save it as .bat, have ffmpeg.exe on same folder and execute the .bat file with video file in folder.