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If the included software lets you save a video with only audio, and you add FFmpeg to your computer, then you can drag the video file into Audacity and import the audio.


Gale

... http://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Installing_and_updating_Audacity_on_Mac_OS_X I recently road tested and amended slightly the LAME and FFmpeg installation instructions - so I know that they work on my MAcbook Pro under Sierra. Don't use this Manual for anything else as it carries many ...

The instructions are correct, I can assure you. Did you download the ZIP file of FFmpeg? If so, the contents (which are multiple dylib files) must be extracted from the zip, and then Audacity pointed specifically to libavformat.55.dylib. Pointing Audacity to the ...

I am trying to set up the ffmpeg-mac-2-2.2 library and not having success. I have read the instructions thoroughly, and scanned the forums, but can't find the answer. Please help! I am running OSX El Captain 10.11.4 I downloaded Audacity ...

... and also http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#lame to work with Audacity 2.1.2 Please see LAME and FFmpeg sections in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#lame http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown

Thanks for telling us exactly what you did. If the GSnap crash problem comes back when you enable more plugins, please let us know.

Gale

Thank you for your quick help, Gale. I followed these steps : "If those crashes continue, I would exit Audacity then open Windows File Explorer and type CODE: SELECT ALL %appdata%\Audacity in the address bar. Hit ENTER on your keyboard. Then you are in the Audacity settings folder. Delete the f...

Audacity can import / export Ogg files.
For importing / exporting WEBM (a video format) or OPUS (an audio format) you need to have FFmpeg installed (see http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_ ... tml#ffdown)

... original source files, not conversions to them. WEBM is a video container format. The audio in the container could be OGG or OPUS. You would need FFmpeg to import the audio from that format into Audacity. What are you trying to do? Gale

According to your log, LAME and FFmpeg have loaded successfully. GSnap has nothing to do with LAME, FFmpeg or with importing MP3 files. Where did you get GSnap from? Obtain the 32-bit version from http://www.gvst.co.uk/gsnap.htm . Can you ...