Audacity Forum

... files on my computer. Why? What format are the files in? File > Import > Audio... in Audacity. If you need support for other file formats, install FFmpeg: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#ffdown . In order to do this, I would normally go to the control panel, ...

So since the grep output is empty, Audacity isn't actually linking to FFmpeg when you compile it. Perhaps you want to set AVCODEC_CFLAGS, AVCODEC_LIBS, AVFORMAT_CFLAGS, AVFORMAT_LIBS, AVUTIL_CFLAGS, and AVUTIL_LIBS via configure. Of course you may still come ...

... an MP3/AAC copy leaving the WAV/AIFF intact. Even as a PC user on Windows I do this as: a) it avoids having to add the extra libraries (LAME, FFMpeg) to Audacity, b) it keeps me strictly legal (I assume Apple is handling the Frauenhoffer licensing for MP3 conversion), c) iTunes does it quicker ...

[email protected]:/usr/ports # pkg-config --libs libavcodec
-L/usr/local/lib -lavcodec

[email protected]:/usr/local/bin # ldd audacity | grep av
[email protected]:/usr/local/bin #

This is the first time trying to get ffmpeg to work in audacity

What do these commands output?
Have you had this trouble before with Audacity recognising FFmpeg?


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... I'm configuring with ./configure --with-lib-preference=local system --with-portaudio --enable-unicode --with-ffmpeg --with-libflac --with-libid3tag --with-jack --enable-ladspa --with-libmad --enable-nyquist --with-portmixer --with-libsamplerate --with-sbsms ...

... are you making to it? If you are not compiling our source tarball then running unmodified ./configure, what happens if you do that? I compiled ffmpeg from ports and then tried to load the libs and got that error. Is there a way to build ffmpeg statically? It sounds like maybe the ffmpeg port ...

I port audacity on FreeBSD. I compiled ffmpeg from ports and then tried to load the libs and got that error. Is there a way to build ffmpeg statically? It sounds like maybe the ffmpeg port in FreeBSD might not be compatible? What causes the ...

Thank you very much. "./configure --without-ffmpeg" worked.

I maintain the port on FreeBSD. The port of FFmpeg, Audacity or both? I compiled ffmpeg from the port and it gives that error. It finds the libraries but can't load them because of Error: Failed to load symbol av_init_packet Did you compile Audacity ...