Audacity Forum

... make sudo make install optional, but makes removal easy: sudo checkinstall There are know compatibility problems with the Ubuntu build of FFmpeg, so while testing do not try to set Audacity Preferences to use FFmpeg. This will mean that Audacity will be limited to the usual WAV and open ...

... not support Audacity 1.2. You will need to download and install Audacity 1.3.12 from here... http://audacityteam.org/download/ If you use lame and FFMpeg, you should get those fresh from the same place. Koz

I'm sorry, I was referring to the current FFmpeg 0.6.1 stable, not audacity 1.2.6, which is what I would assume most people use.

... file you are trying to convert is a lossless .m4a file. The format is not yet supported by FAAC/FAAD. I'm not sure if this also applies to sox, ffmpeg, etc... Can you play the files in linux with any player? You could also have a look at mplayer/mencoder... yes, i can, it plays normally in most ...

... file you are trying to convert is a lossless .m4a file. The format is not yet supported by FAAC/FAAD. I'm not sure if this also applies to sox, ffmpeg, etc... Can you play the files in linux with any player? You could also have a look at mplayer/mencoder... I'm sorry I didn't have time to look ...

... it does not seem to be there. even when trying to load an m4a file into audacity i can't. :( it says that it recognized that the m4a should use ffmpeg based importers, but that none of them does recognize it. digging further it shows a "wma-proprietary" issue. is it possible that ripping ...

... USE_SYSTEM_FFMPEG but not configure with --disable-dynamic-loading, which gives user the opportunity to use an alternative (compatible) version of FFmpeg instead? They are the same. --disable-dynamic-loading sets USE_SYSTEM_FFMPEG. Should I rename USE_SYSTEM_FFMPEG to something better like DISABLE_DYNAMIC_LOADING_FFMPEG? ...

... there any specific reason why these fixes are not currently in the svn repository? Because different fixes are required for different versions of FFmpeg. The current code works for the majority of users, but current fixes for the remaining minority of uses can break support for the majority. The ...

... that you can replicate the problem. Sad that it seems to be with export as well as import. So are you satisfied this is to do with the version of FFmpeg and not to do with configuring/compiling Audacity? Yes, it's a problem between Audacity and the recent FFmpeg version. I assume that it's audacity's ...

... that you can replicate the problem. Sad that it seems to be with export as well as import. So are you satisfied this is to do with the version of FFmpeg and not to do with configuring/compiling Audacity? I already tested patching Audacity for the av-match-ext and const issues, then locating and ...