Audacity Forum

Here is the default picture:


And here is what I use when I try to use the builtin.

I also compiled it by hand, and stuck it in /usr/local, but that did not work either.

I must be doing something else wrong. Does audacity only need the libavformat.so library? I installed the cmake that you noted. I rebuilt ffmpeg with shared libs. I installed those libs. I launch audacity, and tell it where the new libs are. I try to load a .mp4, it comes back and says that the ffmp...

First issue building on Debian 10: Cmake is too old (repo version is 3.13.4 , required version is >3.15) I suppose I left out the fact that on my Debian 10, I am not using anything from the repos as Debian is usually way far back. I installed cmake, wxwidgets, etc and compiled them all. I did the s...

I overcame my ffmpeg build issue... I was trying to re-build the new version of audacity against an older ffmpeg. I rebuilt ffmpeg according to this version, and the compile works. I still am getting the issue. I am nearly convinced that the libavformat.so file is of the wrong version... e.g. audaci...

Yes, gotcha. I am doing the following: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -Daudacity_use_wxwidgets=local -Daudacity_use_ffmpeg=loaded .. The thing that makes me think it is some kind of version issue is that in Audacity, I try to load a .mp4, it comes up and says ffmpeg libraries are not found, even a...

Yes.

I will admit, there seems to be differences in installation instructions. If you download the source and read the linux/build.txt,
this is not exactly the same as the online instructions.

Hello, I am doing some recording on Debian 10 (MX linux). I have built Audacity from source, and I have also built ffmpeg from source following the instructions here: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/installing_and_updating_audacity_on_linux.html Most of my work involves opening .mp4 files with a...