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by jpeterj
Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:53 am
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Failed to import mp4 through FFMPEG
Replies: 5
Views: 4061

Re: Failed to import mp4 through FFMPEG

Thanks of that - you've hit the problem. m4a on this install only supports encoding (interestingly aac is only supported for decoding). Now I know where my problem is.

Thanks for the support
by jpeterj
Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:01 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Failed to import mp4 through FFMPEG
Replies: 5
Views: 4061

Re: Failed to import mp4 through FFMPEG

A good question - I don't have any assurances. So I put the previous hard drive back into the laptop - Ubuntu 12.04 with Audacity 2.0.0 - and successfully opened, edited and exported to MP3 that same file. The clean install is running SolydK. Both Debian based Linux. I'm assuming that there is a con...
by jpeterj
Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:50 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux
Topic: Failed to import mp4 through FFMPEG
Replies: 5
Views: 4061

Failed to import mp4 through FFMPEG

I've done a clean install of a PC and cannot get Audacity (v2.0.3) to import m4a files, despite having FFMPEG installed. The log says 21:22:04: File name is /home/peter/test-file.m4a 21:22:04: Mime type is * 21:22:04: Opening with libav 21:22:04: Error: FFmpeg : av_find_stream_info() failed for file...