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I finally figured out what I needed to do to fix this. I created a PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable and set it to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig The configure got further, but then indicated that expat was required. I installed expat-2.0.1 along with libmad-0.15.1b and libid3tag-0.15.1b and it finally...

I'm trying to build audacity-src-1.3.6 on a PowerMac G4 OS X 10.4.11 with FFMPEG, following the instructions from Josh24 in the thread http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7245&p=29157#p29157 I first downloaded and built: pkg-config-0.23 ...

... in "/usr/lib", then point the library to there. Atleast for me it worked. Libraries need to be in certain directories, so if you compile ffmpeg to e.g. "/usr/src/ffmpeg-52" and try to point to that directory from audacity, it just wont work. And remember to get ffmpeg from svn ...

It's not that I'm not interested, it's that I don't know the answer.
Good luck with getting it working, I'm watching this topic with interest (I'm another Ubuntu user).

foobar789 wrote:I got ffmpeg working; they need to be atleast 52.xx version.

Excellent - any chance that you could write a step-by-step guide of what you did. I'm sure it would be a great help to a lot of people.

More info of the current situation; when trying to open AAC-file enough times, it eventually succeeds. Usually I get AAC-file open on fourth or fifth try.

I got ffmpeg working; they need to be atleast 52.xx version.

Phew...

So this is with latest CVS checkout: if I enable "debug" in "configure" (./configure --enable-debug) and create the binary, I can actually open AAC-file straight away without first having to open WAV file.

Any insights on this?

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I compiled latest audacity from CVS. Previous behavior persists.

Hi, I downloaded and compiled FFMPEG today from SVN. After some while I got it compiled and tried to load m4a file in Audacity (1.3.6). Crash! I got segmentation fault. Well I continued to fiddle with audacity - I loaded a WAV file and just ...