diff --git a/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-output.c b/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-output.c
index e5df0c6c2..6bc1637b1 100644
--- a/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-output.c
+++ b/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg-output.c
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ static void receive_audio(void *param, size_t mix_idx, struct audio_data *frame)
 
 	AVCodecContext *context = data->audio_infos[track_order].ctx;
 
-	if (!data->start_timestamp)
+	if (!data->start_timestamp && data->video)
 		return;
 
 	if (!output->audio_start_ts)