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Audacity needs the FFMpeg software installed to open videos. Did you do that?

Koz

... seem to give any options for how the file is saved and Audacity cannot read the Windows format. Audacity can import WMA files if you install FFmpeg from http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown . Yes I can hear the noise you are on about if I extreme ...

I managed to download FFmpeg and was able to remove the vocal from a video clip. This is the audio only. Axtually what I want is to have the video with no vocal so that I can burn to a cd/dvd for my karaoke. Will I be able to do that? ...

Hi,

Thank you so much for your help. I managed to download FFmpeg and was able to remove the vocal from a video clip. This is the audio only.

Axtually what I want is to have the video with no vocal so that I can burn to a cd/dvd for my karaoke. Will I be able to do that?

Thank you again.

This message prompts up after I imported a video from Youtube "Audacity attempted to use FFmpeg to import an audio file, but the libraries were not found. To use FFmpeg , go to Preferences>Libraries to download or locate the FFmpeg libraries." OK but that message ...

This message prompts up after I imported a video from Youtube "Audacity attempted to use FFmpeg to import an audio file, but the libraries were not found. To use FFmpeg , go to Preferences>Libraries to download or locate the FFmpeg libraries." Where can I find ...

... from the "Plug-Ins" folder. This is because there is a new "Reverb" effect built into Audacity instead. Also if you use FFmpeg (for supporting extra import and export formats) you will have to upgrade it to FFmpeg 2.2.2 from http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown ...

... crashes we don't allow libsndfile to take WAV files misnamed as MP3 on Linux. As an alternative to renaming the MP3 files to WAV you could use FFmpeg to import the file, if the Audacity builds you have support FFmpeg. To use FFmpeg in Audacity, File > Import > Audio..., choose "FFmpeg-compatible ...

... uninstalled my previous version and installed 2.0.6, but the same problem keeps happening with both. I also tried downloading the LAME encoder and FFmpeg libraries (also for v. 2.0.6) but didn't notice a change. Files more than 20 minutes long will also open very slowly, and the sound wave takes ...