Audacity Forum

... video file into Audacity, and you want to record the audio of the video as it plays on the computer, or only one of those? If you have installed FFmpeg as per these instructions and still need to locate FFmpeg in Audacity, this explains how to point Audacity to FFmpeg. If you want to record audio ...

... me to the procedure to accomplish this. I am using Windows7 Prof., a Realtek sound system and Audacity 2.0.3 installed from the .exe installer. FFMPEG has been installed. How do I ensure that audacity is recognizing it? Thanks to any responders.

... for Firefox web browser that allow you to download from YouTube. Audacity is able to extract the audio from many types of video files if you have FFMpeg installed simply by importing the audio (File menu > Import > Audio).

Are you doing it with Stereo-Mix or one of the other self-recording techniques, or are you using a jumper cable between Line-In and Line-Out? Can you download the movie? If you install FFMpeg into Audacity, it will open many movie formats.

Koz

Audacity does not do video.
Audacity can extract the audio part from some video files if you have FFmpeg installed, but cannot edit, process or export video files.

... MP3. So whatever lame can do, Audacity can do. If it's an advanced MP3 format (I think you can do a surround version now), it's possible that the FFMpeg software may be used. That requires a question about FFMpeg, not Audacity. The individual web pages for those two packages are primarily for ...

You don't as far as I know have to disable dynamic loading to link Audacity properly to FFmpeg. What are the default configure flags for ffmpeg on your build that works? --disable-ffplay --disable-ffprobe --disable-ffserver --disable-avdevice --disable-debug --disable-decoder=amrnb ...

I think Ardour have only recently removed that download. We are trying to make the installer available on the site we recommend for LAME and FFmpeg downloads. We'll post here when that it is done. Meantime I do have a zip (not an installer) here: http://gaclrecords.org.uk/swh-plugins-mac-0.4.15.zip ...

I tried with --enable-dynamic-loading=no and only enabling ffmpeg and got this compile error. audacity.txt config.log ffmpeg --version ffmpeg version 0.7.15, Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers built on Feb 28 2013 18:48:28 with gcc 4.2.1 20070831 ...

You need to add FFmpeg to your computer to import the WMA into Audacity http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Installation_and_Plug-Ins/fr#Comment_puis-je_t.C3.A9l.C3.A9charger_et_installer_la_biblioth.C3.A8que_d.27import.2Fexport_FFmpeg_.3F ...