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Hi everyone! I am trying to download the ffmpeg.exe however the external site (lame.buanzo) is down. Does enyone knows where can i find it?

New to Audacity. Need to open an mp4 file. Getting the following message: xxx.mp4 is an Advanced Audio Coding file. Without the optional FFmpeg library, Audacity cannot open this type of file. I'm using Audacity Version 2.4.1 Windows 10 Unable to find the link to get FFmpeg. If anyone can ...

Last time I looked the Flatpak builds had problems with external libraries and plug-ins, such as LAME, FFmpeg, and third party plug-ins. Have you checked that these are working? What I can tell you is that LAME and FFMPEG are detected. From the library preferences pane: MP3 ...

The only change i had made on the laptop was installing the FFMpeg library, from the audacity website. FFmpeg isn't used for WAV files, so I think this is a red herring. The version of FFmpeg that you need for Audacity 2.3.3 is listed as: RECOMMENDED ...

So, I've worked on this some more. I totally removed Audacity and the FFMpeg libraries from the laptop (MacBook Pro - OLD!) I reinstalled Audacity 2.3.3. without the FFMpeg libraries, and all seems well. I successfully record audio with Audacity, and video ...

I downloaded 2.4.1 via the Linux ppa over 2.2.1 from the ubuntu repositories just for this, but now the HiDPI support is broken and everything is humongous and overlapping and pixelated, tooltips white on white, menu not integrated anymore. Anyway, at least the error message is a little less cryptic...

... with regard to length and therefore always went out of sync after a second or two. The only change i had made on the laptop was installing the FFMpeg library, from the audacity website. (2) Instead i tried to record the sound on my main Mac directly, using the latest version of Audacity, in ...

One of the Audacity developers has been looking into this.
It appears that there has been a problem with the AAC encoder for a long time, but it has been mostly hidden by another bug. That other bug has now been fixed, exposing this bug. This is now logged on the Audacity bug tracker.

... to. I tried the explicit export as per the FAQ as pointed out in the prior msg, but that failed the same way. I reinstalled both Audacity and the FFmpeg code and received the same error. Macbook air / Catalina 10.15.4

... which provides all effects correctly. Last time I looked the Flatpak builds had problems with external libraries and plug-ins, such as LAME, FFmpeg, and third party plug-ins. Have you checked that these are working?