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I downloaded the latest nightly build and installed the FFmpeg binary. Audacity now gives me the option to Export using "M4A (AAC) Files (FFmpeg)", but this results in the following error: "FFmpeg cannot find audio codec 0x15002. Support for this codec ...

I guess I should have been more specific regarding FFmeg. I want to export using the FFmpeg aac format. I downloaded the latest nightly build and installed the FFmpeg binary. Audacity now gives me the option to Export using "M4A (AAC) Files (FFmpeg)", but this results ...

An FFmpeg binary for Mac is now available.

Gale

The suffixes (or not) such as "d" would I imagine represent the configuration of Widgets that was built, but I can't help you beyond that as I'm on Windows. Anyway, FFmpeg should be "on" in the nightly builds and we do now have our FFmpeg binary for Mac available.


Gale

I have a workaround. add [FFmpeg] enabled=1 to the .cfg file The download link for the ffmpeg looks like it has now been restored I want to try the WMA direct import feature using ffmpeg. I have the same issue - trying to access preferences ...

Thanks for the info about aclocal Gale. I'm unfamiliar building in Xcode and I wanted to build Audacity with FFMpeg. This is why I was attempting to do so via the command line. However, I did give building in Xcode a shot. I used the latest beta source for audacity (cvs -d:pserver:[email protected].cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/audacity ...

... when I clicked the preferences menu item it crashed. I also uninstalled audacity, then reinstalled. Still no joy. I want to set the path to ffmpeg because I heard that we can now import WMA media. Am anxious to use this but with 1.3.6 I can't even look at the preferences! FWIW, I also tried ...

Note there may be other issues too: * building and installing libmad may not result in a corresponding .pc file in usr/local/lib/pkgconfig * configure may not see LIBSNDFILE without a PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable For more on this, see: http://audacityteam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7720&...

It looks like you got over the aclocal problem? Some people do have problems because aclocal is by default installed in /usr whereas pkg-config is installed in /usr/local, $HOME/local or elsewhere. So when aclocal is run, it only searches in /usr/share for .m4 files to expand. See this thread for de...

Limited AC3 support should now be available through FFmpeg, which is supported in Audacity 1.3.6 I think this is still quite experimental. There are licensing issues with the AC3 format, so full suport may not be possible within open source software. ...