Audacity Forum

When I try to use the the ffmpeg installer, audacity is looking for avformat-52.dll which it will never find for obvious reasons. Should it not be looking for libavformat.52.dylib? 1.3.6 Mac release does look for the Windows .dll in error, ...

When I try to use the the ffmpeg installer, audacity is looking for avformat-52.dll which it will never find for obvious reasons. Should it not be looking for libavformat.52.dylib?

... FilesAudacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode)Plug-Ins I tried that installation (default values) and that doesn't work either. Audacity recognizes the LAME and FFMPEG installation just fine, but they are in the main directory.

Exporting and importing EQ presets should be fairly easy, and is already done in 1.3.6 in the custom FFmpeg exporter - an exported preset is just a self-contained XML file, which can be imported in using the Import Presets button - the code for the preset is then slotted ...

Sorry, I didn't notice your post about AMR before my last one. Thanks for your time explaining and answering questions.

Rich

...what did work was putting the FFmpeg libs that I built with faac and faad into the audacity directory. I then set the Preferences>"Import / Export" for FFmpeg to point to my copy of libavformat and Audacity now exports M4a (aac) format ...

Checking the FFmpeg libs using nm shows no references to libfaac_encoder or libfaad_decoder. So you are correct that the FFmpeg Libraries for Audacity.pkg were made without Faac and Faad. I did try putting faac and faad libraries ...

Dr G- It sure sounds like the ffmpeg libraries Leland made available were built without Faac and Faad enabled. Those two libraries need to exist in usr/local/lib before ffmpeg is compiled using `./configure --enable faac --enable faad ...` ...

Dr G- It sure sounds like the ffmpeg libraries Leland made available were built without Faac and Faad enabled. Those two libraries need to exist in usr/local/lib before ffmpeg is compiled using `./configure --enable faac --enable faad ...` ...

... I don't think environment variables can be set for the Launcher. When going into Preferences>"Import / Export" and selecting "Find Library" for FFmpeg, the location of libavformat.52.dylib is shown as /usr/local/lib/audacity/libavformat.52.dylib. The displayed FFmpeg Library Version is F(52.23.1),C(52.8.0),U(49.12.0)