Your video plays without sound in VS Code — here's how I fixed it

If you've ever opened a .mp4 inside VS Code, you may have noticed something

weird: the video plays, but there's no sound. Most video extensions for the

editor are silent — or they ask you to install ffmpeg on your system first.

I wanted to watch reference clips next to my code without leaving the editor (and

without a second window stealing focus), so I dug into why the audio was missing

— and ended up building a small extension that fixes it:



(source on GitHub).

It's a solo project, so feedback and bug reports are very welcome — especially weird

files that don't play. What would you want a built-in video player to do?