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e above message is preceded by a " FFmpeg not found". I installed the library, but this message persists. I presume that you are using Audacity 1.3.12 - if not, you need to upgrade. Go to "Edit menu > Preferences > Libraries" ...

... MPEG with Corel Video Studio. 3. Create an audio file with Corel Video Studio. (This step can probably be done with Audacity as long as you have FFMPEG installed.) A couple of other possibly helpful FREE programs: VOB2MPG [/u] (NOT a decrypter... Makes one big MPEG from the VOBs with the selected ...

... 'C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorMy Documents . . .' Importers supposedly supporting such files are: WAV, AIFF, and other uncompressed types, FFmpeg-compatible files, but none of them understood this type of format." When trying to import a Camtasia wav file, the above message is preceded ...

... audio to the original file format such as AC3. You can convert the demuxed format to WAV in lots of free tools like SUPER . Alternatively install FFmpeg then you can import the demuxed file into Audacity and edit it if desired then export it as WAV. Gale

... but messes with you if you have compressed format originals. The compression and it's damage doubles. That and you need Audacity 1.3.12 and FFMpeg to natively recognize those types of files at all. That could be why Audacity applied Amplify wrong. It didn't really know what it was doing. ...

Thanks for the sample file - it imports fine with Audacity 1.3.13 on Windows 7 using FFmpeg 0.5. Is the Audacity 1.3.12 from the ArchLinux repository or have you compiled the Audacity 1.3.12 source tarball using these workarounds for SVN FFmpeg? I don't really understand ...

... a bit, I don't really mind. What would be the process? Has anyone had any success with this? Thank you, Ben Running Audacity 1.3 on Mac OS X with FFmpeg library

Try upgrading to the 1.3.12 version and then install FFMpeg.
Audacity 1.3.12 http://audacityteam.org/download/beta_windows
FFMPEG http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg

... -- it seems when I was set up with admin privileges, not all admin priveleges are created equal! ;) I did not have the privilege to install the FFmpeg into the necessary root folders. Once that was corrected, I ran a script file to delete the old installations, then re-installed the FFmpeg, ...

Administrator, 'root', and koz with administrator privileges are not the same. Apple suggests strongly that if you don't need a root account that you leave it out.

Koz