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... file you can attach for us to show us all your environment variables. I don't know if it's relevant but you have a non standard location for FFmpeg "C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity.FFmpeg\". What do you see when Audacity takes a long time to launch, other than the splash screen ...

... if it's inaudible. Compression is used with most audio/video formats, and if it wasn't compressed Audacity would probably open it without FFMPEG.

You can import quite a large number of different sound and video files if you install the FFMpeg software package. Follow the pathway to the type of machine you have. http://audacityteam.org/download/ However, once you get your sound track into Audacity, I don't think ...

So I updated my Audacity to be able to use FFmpeg libraries. After doing so my Noise Gate Plugin no longer shows up. After uninstalling multiple times and then dropping the noise gate plugin in it will not show up. I have restarted it and dropped ...

sorry to be a pain =) but even with the ffmpeg 2.2.2 like i said when i manually try to load the codec it for some reason will not load [...] 21:27:47: Loading avutil from '/Applications/Audacity/audacity/libavutil.50.dylib'. 21:27:47: Loading ...

... but when I try to use it I get the error message Error writing autosave file. The log records:- 09:31:01: Audacity 2.0.5 09:31:19: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 09:31:19: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-52.dll'. 09:31:19: Looking up PATH environment ...

sorry to be a pain =) but even with the ffmpeg 2.2.2 like i said when i manually try to load the codec it for some reason will not load 21:27:47: Audacity 2.1.1 21:27:47: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 21:27:47: mLibAVFormatPath ('/Applications/Audacity/audacity/libavcodec.52.dylib') ...

... see a flat line where the waves should be, are you importing an MP4, M4A or other QuickTime-based audio file? If so, please see Audacity 2.1.0: FFmpeg required for MP4/M4A/MOV/ALAC import . Another way to get around that problem is to download the current Audacity 2.1.1 instead from http://audacityteam.org/download/mac ...

As it says in the link and on the buanzo download page, you need FFmpeg 2.2.2 for Audacity 2.0.6 or later, not FFmpeg 0.6.2. http://lame3.buanzo.com.ar/ffmpeg-mac-2.2.2.zip or http://lame3.buanzo.com.ar/ffmpeg-mac-2.2.2.dmg.


Gale

... of available Firefox extensions. Don't convert the video to MP3 or to other lossy formats if you want to edit them in Audacity. Instead, install FFmpeg from http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown then drag the video file into Audacity and it will extract ...