Audacity Forum

OK, the new DMG is up and installs the FFmpeg libs into the default location. This still doesn't explain why Audacity fails to load them if they are installed in any other location. Or is it just me? 21:59:35: Loading avformat from '/Users/Bill/Downloads/FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX/libavcodec.52.dylib'. ...

... local libsndfile (I used a line like ./configure --prefix=/home/lars/audacity --with-libsndfile=local --with-libsamplerate --with-libid3=no --with-ffmpeg=no but you can modify it to suit your needs) execute make and make install (since I used the prefix in the configure I don't have to use sudo ...

... time. Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3. If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software from the same web site. Do not use older software or software from other web sites, even though they may have the same names.

Nope, I don't believe it is just you. That message is not right at all. Other OS X users have had success detecting the old 0.5 FFmpeg in 1.3.13 even if installing 0.5 in arbitrary locations. We should be able to cope with changing FFmpeg versions, but did you ever use 0.5 in 1.3.13 from ...

OK, the new DMG is up and installs the FFmpeg libs into the default location. This still doesn't explain why Audacity fails to load them if they are installed in any other location. Or is it just me? 21:59:35: Loading avformat from '/Users/Bill/Downloads/FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX/libavcodec.52.dylib'. ...

OK, the new DMG is up and installs the FFmpeg libs into the default location. This still doesn't explain why Audacity fails to load them if they are installed in any other location. Or is it just me? -- Bill 21:59:35: User-specified path = '/Users/Bill/Downloads/FFmpeg_v0.6.2_for_Audacity_on_OSX/libavcodec.52.dylib' ...

... looks like I have the right libs... My bad call might have been triggered by the "52" in libavcodec.52.dylib, but that 52 doesn't mean ffmpeg 0.5.2 right? Correct. I'd forgotten that as well. Unfortunately there's not much we can do about it. (The version numbers and the forgetfullness. ...

I started audacity it detected ffmpeg... but the old 0.5.2 version... Decided to take a break from work for a sec and think about this. You're probably seeing the correct version since the FFmpeg 0.6.2 release still uses the 52.xx versions ...

I'm sorry I might have jumped in precipitation here... Here's the relevant parts of the log: 17:47:18: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 17:47:18: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from default path, '/usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.52.dylib'. 17:47:18: Checking for monolithic ...

bgravato wrote:I started audacity it detected ffmpeg... but the old 0.5.2 version...

Can you post the Help -> Show Log contents? Also, could you check the dates on the /usr/local/lib/audacity contents? They should be yesterday.

Thanks,

Leland