diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 041f3f4ce..03d763dcc 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Emulation fixes:
  - GBA Video: Disable BG target 1 blending when OBJ blending (fixes mgba.io/i/2722)
 Other fixes:
  - Core: Allow sending thread requests to a crashed core (fixes mgba.io/i/2784)
+ - FFmpeg: Force lower sample rate for codecs not supporting high rates (fixes mgba.io/i/2869)
  - Qt: Fix crash when attempting to use OpenGL 2.1 to 3.1 (fixes mgba.io/i/2794)
  - Qt: Disable sync while running scripts from main thread (fixes mgba.io/i/2738)
  - Qt: Fix savestate preview sizes with different scales (fixes mgba.io/i/2560)
diff --git a/src/feature/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-encoder.c b/src/feature/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-encoder.c
index 88f4f78c2..9d61e5846 100644
--- a/src/feature/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-encoder.c
+++ b/src/feature/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-encoder.c
@@ -154,19 +154,35 @@ bool FFmpegEncoderSetAudio(struct FFmpegEncoder* encoder, const char* acodec, un
 	}
 	encoder->sampleRate = encoder->isampleRate;
 	if (codec->supported_samplerates) {
+		bool gotSampleRate = false;
+		int highestSampleRate = 0;
 		for (i = 0; codec->supported_samplerates[i]; ++i) {
+			if (codec->supported_samplerates[i] > highestSampleRate) {
+				highestSampleRate = codec->supported_samplerates[i];
+			}
 			if (codec->supported_samplerates[i] < encoder->isampleRate) {
 				continue;
 			}
-			if (encoder->sampleRate == encoder->isampleRate || encoder->sampleRate > codec->supported_samplerates[i]) {
+			if (!gotSampleRate || encoder->sampleRate > codec->supported_samplerates[i]) {
 				encoder->sampleRate = codec->supported_samplerates[i];
+				gotSampleRate = true;
 			}
 		}
+		if (!gotSampleRate) {
+			// There are no available sample rates that are higher than the input sample rate
+			// Let's use the highest available instead
+			encoder->sampleRate = highestSampleRate;
+		}
 	} else if (codec->id == AV_CODEC_ID_FLAC) {
 		// HACK: FLAC doesn't support > 65535Hz unless it's divisible by 10
 		if (encoder->sampleRate >= 65535) {
 			encoder->sampleRate -= encoder->isampleRate % 10;
 		}
+	} else if (codec->id == AV_CODEC_ID_VORBIS) {
+		// HACK: FLAC doesn't support > 48000Hz but doesn't tell us
+		if (encoder->sampleRate > 48000) {
+			encoder->sampleRate = 48000;
+		}
 	} else if (codec->id == AV_CODEC_ID_AAC) {
 		// HACK: AAC doesn't support 32768Hz (it rounds to 32000), but libfaac doesn't tell us that
 		encoder->sampleRate = 48000;