Audacity Forum

Audacity uses ffmpeg for ac3 encoding. For proper (DVD-compliant) AC3 (A52 is another name for same thing) use: 48000 khz Project rate 448 kbps encoding for 5.1 (or 224 kbps for stereo) Channels are: 1: FL 2: FR 3: C 4: LFE 5: RL ...

... time. Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3. If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software from the same web site. Do not use older software or software from other web sites, even though they may have the same names. Koz

... OS X are you on? 10.7.2 sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/audacity The permissions are already wrx-rx-rx for root:wheel Good. Suppose the Lame or FFmpeg installer was malware that could damage your computer. You would not want an ordinary user to install software in that case. hmmm, I installed ...

... time. Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3. If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software from the same web site. Do not use older software or software from other web sites, even though they may have the same names.

... time. Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3. If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software from the same web site. Do not use older software or software from other web sites, even though they may have the same names.

Upgrade to Audacity 1.3 and then install the FFMpeg software from the same web site. http://audacityteam.org/download/ You can put both versions of Audacity on your machine. Audacity tries to open up highly compressed sound files whether it understands ...

... the Finder. I have installed the libraries as normal user, but the installer claimed admin rights during installation. Good. Suppose the Lame or FFmpeg installer was malware that could damage your computer. You would not want an ordinary user to install software in that case. Have you tried forgetting ...

WEBM is supported by the FFMpeg libraries available at extra download with Audacity 1.3.13.

http://audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

... using Audacity 1.3.9. The versions before about 1.3.11 or so all had problems. http://audacityteam.org/download/ That and download and install the FFMpeg libraries (same web site) for immunity from oddball file formats. Koz

... then locate the extracted "libmp3lame.dylib" using the Libraries Preferences. Follow similar steps for the alternative zip download for FFmpeg 0.6.2 (choose a different name for the folder you extract FFmpeg to). Gale