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1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:07 pm
by dattrax
1.3.6 (beta) problems
On Vista SP1 when going to preferences options audacity crashes with a 'Audacity, the Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor has stopped working' Seems to be OK on XP with SP3.
The download link supplied to ffmpeg in
http://lrn.1986.li/other/gsoc/ffmpegcit ... encies.exe
is missing or broken.
I believe I can work around the Vista problem by directly editing the .cfg file, but has someone got the ffmpeg download?
Cheers
Jim
Re: 1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:04 pm
by steve
dattrax wrote:has someone got the ffmpeg download?
I've not tried it yet, but try this page:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=FFmpeg
Re: 1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:46 am
by Copius
dattrax wrote:1.3.6 (beta) problems
On Vista SP1 when going to preferences options audacity crashes with a 'Audacity, the Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor has stopped working' Seems to be OK on XP with SP3.
...
Jim
I'm seeing exactly the same behaviour. Vista SP1 Audacity 1.3.6 As soon as I try and access Preferences = Crash!
Re: 1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:00 pm
by dattrax
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
Re: 1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:44 am
by raymer
dattrax wrote: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 causes Audacity to crash (on Vista SP1). I tried the workaround above and it seems to enable ffmpeg but instead of prompting me for the path it tells me to go to preferences (grrr!)
Looking at the syntax of the config file I tried
[FFmpeg]
enabled=1
FFmpegLibPath=C:Program Filesffmpeg-binarybinavformat.dll
and
[FFmpeg]
enabled=1
Path=C:Program Filesffmpeg-binarybinavformat.dll
The second one seems close, no prompt at startup, but when I try to import an WMA file it doesn't work and gives me two prompts 1 - Audacity tried to use the libraries and couldn't find them, 2. Audacity couldn't import the file
Sorry I paraphrased the error msgs. I have to run now. Spent too much time on this already but I would love to get it working. Any help?
Thanks,
Ray