Audacity Forum

The Jaunty version of Audacity works fine on Ubuntu 8.10
I've not tried it on 8.04 and I've not tried FFmpeg on 8.04 either. If they don't work, it's simple enough to uninstall them.

The other alternatives are to build from the source code, or as you say, to wait.

Okay, thanks.
But I won't install another version of Ubuntu until the next LTS arrives. So, I'll wait...

When using Export Multiple and choosing AC3 (FFmpeg) as the output, the files are mistakenly encoded as M4A (AAC) files (FFmpeg) instead.

... right, center, LFE, rear left, rear right WMA front left, front right, front center, LFE, rear left, rear right Next on my to-do is trying the ffmpeg exporter in 1.3.7. Thanks in advance!

Yes there was a misprint in that version of Audacity. First the bad news: Audacity does not work with the version of FFmpeg that comes with Ubuntu 8.04 The good news, it works with the version that comes with Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) Also, the version of Audacity in Jaunty (1.3.7) has ...

Hi ! My name is Paco and I live in Austria. This is my first topic so before anything, I would like to greet all members of this forum so, HI EVERYBODY!! :D Now: I wanted to import an ac3 audio file and convert it into a MP3 file and it seems to be possible if the libavformat.so.52 library is instal...

What I wrote previously is correct. Audacity does not support video files, however, if you have ffmpeg installed and are using Audacity 1.3.7 (you have posted in the Audacity 1.2.x section of the forum), then, depending on which codecs are used in the AVI file and on how ...

... predict how yours will behave.) 2) Consider upgrading to Audacity 1.3. It works a lot better than 1.2. Once you install 1.3, and then load the FFmpeg and LAME libraries through Preferences, I doubt you'll have a problem. Also, what formats are the files you're trying to use in? What are their ...

This one better work. http://drop.io/mikehunt Thanks. The file imports fine in 1.3.8 Alpha (Unicode), either via FFmpeg or the inbuilt FLAC importer. This might possibly be due to some improvements we have made in metadata tag handling since 1.3.7. If you want to try it, download ...

... libavcodec52 version 3:0.svn20090303-1 libavformat52 version 3:0.svn20090303-1 libavutil-unsrtipped-49 version 3:0.svn20090303-1 gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg version 0.10.6.2-1ubuntu2 and Audacity 1.3.7 As soon as I clicked on the "locate" button in Audacity Preferences, ffmpeg was automatically detected.