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... and a *.wav file from the speaker playback of the *.mp4 .[...] Before I could [Export] to mp3 I needed to download and install : lame_enc.dll and FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows.zip You only needed LAME to export as MP3. But if you had FFmpeg you could have imported the MP4 instead of record ...

I was able to create an *.mp3 and a *.wav file from the speaker playback of the *.mp4 . manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer.html The input settings that worked for me are: [Windows WASAPI] [speakers high def] [speakers high def] [2 stereo input] Before I co...

Just because it says it's a WAV file...

You can add FFMpeg software to Audacity and it will open up a great many more file types than Audacity will on its own. Scroll down.

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Koz

... ) . If it helps, see http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/imovie/separating/ for how you can exhange audio in iMovie. Install FFmpeg by following these instructions http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#macff . Installing FFmpeg will then let ...

Audacity uses software "hooks" to integrate with the FFmpeg library. Unfortunately after FFmpeg version 0.8, the FFmpeg developers changed the hooks. In order to work with later versions there are two approaches that the Audacity developers can ...

Hello:

I wonder why Audacity (2.0.3) works only with avformat-52.dll and not newer versions.
I have another multimedia software which uses avformat-54.dll and I thought audacity could share it, but didn't accept it.

Thanks!!

When you planning to add support for newer versions of ffmpeg, at least that one which is in debian-multimedia repo for wheezy? When volunteers have time to upgrade, or we could take another route and export/import using the FFmpeg compiled binary instead ...

When you planning to add support for newer versions of ffmpeg, at least that one which is in debian-multimedia repo for wheezy?

As described in the manual (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown), The optional FFmpeg library allows Audacity to import and export a much larger range of audio formats including AC3, AMR(NB), M4A, MP4 and WMA and also audio from most video ...

And how about first question:

Whether it limit audacity functionality(without ffmpeg support)? If so, how?