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Those FFmpeg messages are normal. It's just logging the search.

... and debug reports that may point to a cause of the problem. At least from my (mostly)untrained eye appears to relate to a problem loading some of FFMPEG components when FFMPEG is not in PATH. Here are a few excerpts: :31:30: Checking that 'C:\Users\vhaglabruceed\Downloads\FFmpeg' is in PATH... ...

... to the plug-ins folder and tried to enable it via the add new plug-in in Audacity but get the message 'Could not load the library'. I have the FFmpeg library saved to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\FFmpeg for Audacity' Any thoughts? Jordan

My guess is that it's hitting some bad data in the file and FFmpeg is just giving up. You could perhaps try extracting the audio with another application (such as VLC ) to see if that can do any better. Failing that, if the file plays correctly in your ...

... hours long respectively) but when I try to import it, a large majority is completely gone. I go to open select the video, and the "importing ffmpeg.." box opens. But once that happens, it'll import for 3 seconds (the progress bar only moves a tiny bit), the box will crash and disappear ...

OK Steve, many thanks for the explanation. Knowing that, I'll try & figure out what options will do similar in ffmpeg / ffmpeg-normalize.

All the best,
Jim

was really trying to find out if Audacity is using ffmpeg behind the scenes to do the normalization No it doesn't. FFmpeg is purely optional for Audacity and used to extend the range of audio formats that can be imported / exported. The Normalize ...

Thanks for your time & help. In this case I was really trying to find out if Audacity is using ffmpeg behind the scenes to do the normalization & what ffmpeg options would be needed to get same results as Audacity. I've been trying ffmpeg-normalize . I know this ...

... in Audacity with the default options: Remove DC offset Normalize max amplitude to -1.0 dB and it does what I want. However I'd like to use ffmpeg so I can apply to audio in a video. I've been trying ffmpeg-normalize but not sure how to get same results as Audacity. Grateful for any help. ...

Audacity will use libogg (from http://www.xiph.org/) if it identifies the file as an OGG file, otherwise it will try to import with FFmpeg if FFmpeg is installed.