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... in a webm file should be Vorbis or Opus. But, that probably won't help because there should be information in the file header telling the decoder (FFmpeg, etc.) what the format is, so you shouldn't have to do it manually. It's just like playing an audio or video file on your computer... You don't ...

I have ffmpeg installed and Audacity has been working fine for editing. I just get that weird message when I try to import a webm file. I'm not at a PC with Audacity installed now so I can't can't check but which choices should ...

... Audacity has some exporters built in (WAV, AIFF, OGG, FLAC,...) Other export formats are supported by installing LAME (for MP3 export) and FFmpeg (for other formats). This is an important concept, especially if you ever need to move or make copies of Audacity Projects without destroying ...

... video you can also download it for example using a browser extension. Use your favourite search engine to find out how. Then if you install FFmpeg you can just drag the downloaded video into Audacity and it will extract the audio for you. At that point the audio is exactly the same quality ...

... . 2.1.0 does not support El Capitan as well as 2.1.2 does. In particular you will have to install FFmpeg to import Apple audio formats - see http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=84958 . So I went back to 2.0.6 and learned that I ...

... does is let you export MP3 files. Import Raw Data is only for uncompressed audio data, not for videos. To import WEBM videos, install or reinstall FFmpeg . Gale

kozikowski wrote:Does 2.1.2 "know" if it's trying to access the wrong FFMpeg?

If FFmpeg (lower case "m") is not compatible with Audacity then Libraries Preferences will say that FFmpeg was not found.

2.1.2 uses the same version of FFmpeg as 2.1.0.


Gale

Does 2.1.2 "know" if it's trying to access the wrong FFMpeg?

Koz

Just use the recommended installer and install over the top of the old version. If you use FFmpeg (for support of additional audio formats) you will need to update that too. Download Audacity 2.1.2 from here: http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ Additional information ...

... hard not to install unwanted applications. We're not going to recommend it any longer. Audacity can import audio from WEBM videos if you install FFmpeg. Gale