I’m on Arch linux and I for some reason can not use ffmpeg library. I even tried to set it manually through settings but it still does not work.
here’s the output of LD_DEBUG=libs,files audacity in case it’s needed
I have the same problem with Audacity 3.7.8 on Fedora Workstation 44 with FFMPEG binaries by BtbN. Initially, I thought the problem was related to the latest BtbN release and the GCC compiler used to compile them. So I removed it and after some trial and error, I noticed that Audacity fails to set any FFMPEG libraries, even the ones installed/updated by Fedora itself (currently, v8.1.2 compiled with GCC 16).
FFMPEG v8.1.2 libraries (Fedora default):
libavutil 60. 26.102 / 60. 26.102
libavcodec 62. 28.102 / 62. 28.102
libavformat 62. 12.102 / 62. 12.102
libavdevice 62. 3.102 / 62. 3.102
libavfilter 11. 14.102 / 11. 14.102
libswscale 9. 5.102 / 9. 5.102
libswresample 6. 3.102 / 6. 3.102
There’s 2 potential issues here:
- FFmpeg 9 is not yet supported (will be fixed in the next version)
- there has been some trouble with the file names recently Can't select FFmpeg library from Preferences on Fedora 44 · Issue #11104 · audacity/audacity · GitHub
It’d be helpful to know if making a symlink to an unversioned file name resolves things