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I don't notice anything problematic there. Audacity is looking for FFmpeg and doesn't find it, which is normal if you've not installed FFmpeg. When you say it takes a "long time", how long are you talking about? What's the specifications of your ...

Here's the log. 01:02:31: Audacity 2.1.2 01:02:31: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 01:02:31: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-55.dll'. 01:02:31: Looking up PATH environment variable... 01:02:31: PATH = 'C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program ...

You may have to install an additional component called FFmpeg into Audacity to play [and edit] that file format That was true in Audacity 2.1.0, due to a bug http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=84958 . I would just update to Audacity ...

... a few) I wish to edit are all coming from iTunes and, for the most part, are in mp4 format. You may have to install an additional component called FFmpeg into Audacity to play [and edit] that file format , here's how ... http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#Mac_OS_X_2

FFmpeg add-on lets Audacity recognize the audio tracks from many different video formats. Scroll down. http://www.audacityteam.org/download/windows/ But, as above, Audacity won't edit video, so you need a video editor to put ...

... video editors can do some audio editing, so you may not need audacity. You can open an Audio/video file in Audacity (you may need the optional FFmpeg Import/Export Library) and Audacity will open the audio for editing. When you export, you will only export the audio so you'll need an video ...

The log shows no file errors, as expected, only a note that you have not installed FFmpeg. So unless you made a copy of the log when it listed orphan files you don't know which AU files you might be looking for. You can only go on looking for AU files that were deleted ...

@ Gale,

Re your last, no I didn't. Will do though.

Sorry for omitting version info. Yes indeed, it was build from git source against ffmpeg 2.3.6, as before on Fedora 23. Sorry for any confusion.

Will attempt to rerun configuration and report back :0)

Did you do after installing your local build of FFmpeg?


Gale

I think this will be less confusing if merged back into the original topic. Done.

Gale