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I was wondering why it took so much longer for Lame to load than FFMpeg in the Logfile. I just realized, that Lame only loads when opening the Settings-Window. But FFMpeg DLLs are loaded immediately after opening the project without the need for any other user-input.

... it, the "lame_enc.dll" from desktop should be loaded. Here's the Logfile content: 18:44:58: Audacity 2.1.3 18:44:58: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 18:44:58: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-55.dll'. 18:44:58: Looking up PATH environment ...

It's also possible to create chapters using FFmpeg from the command line. Here's an example of the metadata from an M4B file that has chapter marks that work in iTunes: ;FFMETADATA1 major_brand=M4A minor_version=0 compatible_brands=3gp5isom Encoding ...

With no installation of LAME or FFmpeg, and clean audacity.cfg for each test, I have now tested three setups. Loading a project from a Linux machine on my local network. Loading a project stored on my FTP server on the internet, where the ...

... not be regarded as a convincing demonstration. However because it isn't really the internet, I suppose it is possible that Audacity is looking for FFmpeg on the physical machine because it *is* the actual host computer. On the new screenshot you also see Audacity window with the Settings/Libraries ...

colebantam wrote:I guess I found out why the DLLs aren't loaded from the testdirectory on Gale's Test-Setup. I assume Gale has Lame and FFMpeg already configured in Audacity?

No. I worked with a clean audacity.cfg and uninstalled LAME and FFmpeg first.

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I assume Gale has Lame and FFMpeg already configured in Audacity? I've just tried on Windows 10 Home, placing LAME and FFmpeg into a project folder on the Desktop (which should be a 'safe' location). Neither LAME or FFmpeg were installed, ...

I guess I found out why the DLLs aren't loaded from the testdirectory on Gale's Test-Setup. I assume Gale has Lame and FFMpeg already configured in Audacity? Well, all advanced Audacity Users might have ;) I just copied the DLLs to the application folder and configured Audacity to ...

... with administrative privileges? On the new screenshot you also see Audacity window with the Settings/Libraries Window, and it has Lame and FFMpeg enabled, even though none of them is installed on the "victim-pc".

KTf wrote:Is there a nyquist plugin that does what truncate silence filter does but also outputs a cutlist to be used with ffmpeg and a video?

Not that I know of, but why not just use Truncate Silence and then export from Audacity?