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You should probably install the FFMpeg software package from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

And when you File > Export your show, choose "Custom FFMpeg Export" and then find your format in the listings.

Koz

You can probably just use the one from your distro repository.
If you want to self compile, the source code should be available from the repository, or get the tarball here: http://ffmpeg.org/download.html

Ok, I'll remove 0.11 and try with 0.7 if I can find a tarball.

Thanks!

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F. Delente

It may be a compatibility issue. ffmpeg-0.11 was only released last week so I doubt that many people have tried it yet (I haven't) and most distros are still shipping 0.7.x

Hello. I have successfully built and installed ffmpeg-0.11 (latest release at this date) on my machine (linux 3.4 on intel x86, 32-bits, with gcc 4.5.2). However, when I configure and build audacity 2.0 from source, I get a bunch of errors like ...

... Error: Couldn't find symbol 'MainPanelFunc' in a dynamic library (error 127: the specified procedure could not be found.) 15:29:10: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 15:29:10: mLibAVFormatPath ('C:Program Files (x86)FFmpeg for Audacityavformat-52.dll') is not empty. Loading from it. 15:29:10: ...

The good gremlins have been at work overnight! I thought I'd try once more before replying to your post, and the links are now working. Download is now done.
Thank you for your prompt response to my request.

... library settings. That's why I am surprised that it was bundled together. Not a complaint, just surprised. The way that Audacity links to LAME and FFMpeg has been updated so that in most cases if FFMpeg and LAME are installed then Audacity will find them automatically. This means that in many cases ...

Which link are you using?

Download problems?
I can't even access the webpage to down load the files. The page just freezes!