Audacity Forum

Hey everyone.
I downloaded your program to see the capabilities of it, and mainly for it's import/export feature, but I had trouble getting it going because it could not find any FFmpeg libraries (avformat-52.dll).
I installed the 1.3.9, 1.3.10, 1.3.11b, and 1.3.12a versions with all the same result.
I downloaded the LAME codec and the FFmpeg libraries from the provided link on the main page, re-installed the FFmpeg library many times, all using default directory pathing, and it still could not load them, even though it WAS present and selectable, the program just refused to recognize it.
Well I found out what the issue is:
It seems that the version of the FFmpeg download that is provided on the main page is too old and therefore, incompatable with the higher numbered versions of this program.
The version supplied on the download link on the main page is:
FFmpeg_2009_01_08_for_Audacity_on_Windows

This for some reason is just not being recognized properly.

I found a newer version of the FFmpeg installer, and after downloading it and installing it to default parameters, Audacity 1.3.11b automatically detected it when I opened the Preferences/Libraries menu option.
The newer version is:
FFmpeg_2009_07_20_for_Audacity_on_Windows

Until they update the main page to direct users to the newest version of the FFmpeg library download, I have found a good reliable link to the newer version which works fine.
This is a direct download link to file so just copy/paste in search window and should start downloading immedietly.

http://www.gaclrecords.org.uk/FFmpeg_20 ... indows.exe

Hope this is the solution you others have been looking for.

EDIT: The provided download link for the Lame_v3.98.2_for_Audacity_on_Windows seems to be the most current version of the LAME codec for Audacity so that one is fine as is.
Currently installed in a Windows XP x64 system

did this fix this issue for those that also had it?

No it still doesn't come up with the library... keeps saying "library not found"

I've just used the FFmpeg installer from the link on this page and it works: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg

stevethefiddle wrote:I've just used the FFmpeg installer from the link on this page and it works: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg

I did that and no cigar for ffmpeg

I FINALLY solved the problem ouuuuuffff

I uninstalled FFmpeg__for_Audacity_on_Windows,
I uninstalled Audacity

I especially removed all the remaining files in the Audacity directories. (some interesting files)

I installed FFmpeg_2009_07_20_for_Audacity_on_Windows
I installed Audacity.

It immediately found lame-directory and FFmpeg_2009_07_20_for_Audacity_on_Windows

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the feedback aardvark2zz.

It would be really interesting to know which file was causing the problem.
Did you delete the "audacity.cfg" file?
Any chance that you could mess it up again and so find out exactly which file? (OK, I guess not ).

I didn't look for any .cfg files. What directory ? After uninstall I didn't see any (I would have deleted them anyway) !!

But what intrigued me, before uninstall, was a very small ffmpeg.exe file (<20KB) in the directory. I believe it was .exe.

That looked very unusual !?

After uninstall I moved the remaining files and directory out of programs directory; see below.

Directory of moved directory out of programs ____ Audacity 1.3 Beta (Unicode).

30/03/2010 08:37 PM <DIR> .
30/03/2010 08:37 PM <DIR> ..
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 4,587,008 avcodec-52.10.0.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 4,587,008 avcodec-52.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 4,587,008 avcodec.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 9,216 avdevice-52.1.0.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 9,216 avdevice-52.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 9,216 avdevice.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 593,920 avformat-52.23.1.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 593,920 avformat-52.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 593,920 avformat.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 62,464 avutil-49.12.0.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 62,464 avutil-49.dll
08/01/2009 05:50 AM 62,464 avutil.dll
07/01/2009 12:48 PM 85,001 libfaa c-0.dll
03/08/2008 01:44 PM 385,928 libmp3lame-0.dll
07/01/2009 01:48 PM 250,512 libspeex-1.dll
01/08/2008 02:43 PM 74,852 pthreadGC2.dll
17 File(s) 16,554,117 bytes

I don't remember what some of them were originally for; e.g. pthreadGC2.dll ?

Note: In Programs I have several versions of ffmpeg in seperate directories (and names) due to numerous other programs using their own versions of ffmpeg.

That's all folks. Vista SP2

(PS: sh#t my starbucks wifi IP is blocked by spamhaus so I couldn't post here; had to use my handy poolroom backup)
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Thanks again aardvark2zz. It looks like Audacity was latching onto an old version of FFMpeg instead of the new one. Are you saying that all of those files were in the Audacity folder?

Your welcomed. Yep, main audacity folder.