Audacity Forum

Compiling FFmpeg or compiling Audacity should do the trick, but until I try it I'm not sure which version you should use. I think what you need to do is either compile an earlier version of FFmpeg, or build Audacity with the changes ...

... to do the job. I really don't know where to look further to track down the problem on our linux station. Do you recommend compiling Audacity and FFmpeg from source or do you have any other suggestions? Thanks in advance!

My guess is that Ubuntu has not patched their build of Audacity to work with their current build of FFmpeg. You could report this as a bug to Ubuntu (check first that they do not already have it listed as a bug), and/or build a compatible version of FFmpeg and/or Audacity ...

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the reply. I have the packages from the Ubuntu repositories.

Are you using Audacity and FFmpeg installed from the Ubuntu repositories (installed with Synaptic/apt/Add Programs) or have you built either of them from their source code?

... on Ubuntu x86_64. After the recent kernel update I get this message when I try to export an audio file in Audacity to ac3: Properly configured FFmpeg is required to proceed. You can configure it at Preferences > Libraries. Once there it is asking me to locate "libavformat.so.52", ...

... the problem is when i try and open it with Audacity it says http://img1.hidemyass.com/img/S0V3x.png It imports fine into Audacity if you add the FFmpeg library to your computer as per this Frequently Asked Question . I managed to convert to mp3 with SUPER but... i compared the .wmv and the .mp3 ...

... the problem is when i try and open it with Audacity it says http://img1.hidemyass.com/img/S0V3x.png It imports fine into Audacity if you add the FFmpeg library to your computer as per this Frequently Asked Question . I managed to convert to mp3 with SUPER but... i compared the .wmv and the .mp3 ...

... except the audio format you want (and obviously uncheck the "video" box). The disadvantage of using SUPER (or Audacity after installing FFmpeg) to extract WAV files from the VOB files is that if you want all the DVD audio you then have to stitch all the WAV files together. And if you ...

... Audacity recognized the type of file 'TRACK000.WAV'. Importers supposedly supporting such files are: WAV, AIFF, and other uncompressed types, FFmpeg-compatible files, but none of them understood this file format. I'm terribly afraid this file is lost for good. Is there anything that can be ...