Audacity Forum

... VLC all manage with no problem. And in all cases, the video goes through an extra compression step. No that's not the case. In both avidemux and FFmpeg you can demux and force a direct copy (no transcoding) of the retained video / audio data. Both applications have settings specifically for that ...

... kbps even though I have the quality up to 500. That's because the quality slider does not work with the specific AAC encoder that our recommended FFmpeg version ships with. There are multiple AAC encoders available to FFmpeg if support for those encoders is compiled into FFmpeg. All of those FFmpeg ...

I've been using the MP4 with the .m4r file type to export them Audacity does not support MP4 directly but relies on FFmpeg for the conversion. It is very difficult for open source programs (such as Audacity) to support closed / proprietary formats (such as MP4) because of license ...

... forum to no avail. I've got Audacity 2.1.0! installed on Windows Pro 8.1 and it starts and runs like its supposed to. I have installed Lame and FFmpeg and can open the audio from a .MOV file that I need to remove the entire audio from. I've successfully opened the .MOV file and exported the ...

... be 128. they've been exporting in 192 192 is submission quality for a published audiobook. How do you know that they're in 192? Are you using the FFmpeg add-on software to get this filetype? Koz

... only import WAV containing uncompressed audio. It's the same for import Raw Data too. So I suggest you do as the error message says and install FFmpeg. Here are instructions to install FFmpeg: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown . Gale

... computer (its a recording from an ordinary recorder) When I try "import - audio" I receive an error-message "Audacity tried to use FFmpeg to import an audio-file but the library is nowhere to be found. To be able to import FFmpeg go to Settings>Library to download and localise FFmpeg ...

... or importation of file….since QT itself opens only formats approved by Apple, and that these AIFF/ima4 files open by using the filter of the ffmpeg suite. They do, but you did not know that, so had to ask here for help. It could be the same for other users. And FFmpeg is an extra download, ...

... or importation of file….since QT itself opens only formats approved by Apple, and that these AIFF/ima4 files open by using the filter of the ffmpeg suite. Thanks again, Regards, tobele

... covert recordings and will advise if the material is likely to be legally admissible. If the video files also contain audio, then If you install FFmpeg , you may be able to drag the video files straight into Audacity and FFmpeg will extract the audio from the file. This might save re-recording ...