Hi!
I just tried to install the ffmpeg library (like I have done many times already) - however this time, the settings keep saying the library is not loaded.
I tried installing both the exes (and link their install directory) and the .zips in varous folders.
Here is my generated log:
15:03:04: Audacity 3.0.3
15:08:21: User-specified path = ‘C:\Program Files\FFmpeg For Audacity\avformat-55.dll’
15:08:21: User-specified FFmpeg file exists. Success.
15:08:21: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries…
15:08:21: mLibAVFormatPath (‘C:\Program Files\FFmpeg For Audacity\avformat-55.dll’) is not empty. Loading from it.
15:08:21: Looking up PATH environment variable…
15:08:21: PATH = ‘C:\Program Files\AdoptOpenJDK\jre-8.0.292.10-hotspot\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-16.0.1\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Tools\Binn;C:\Users\Tom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps’
15:08:21: Temporarily prepending ‘;C:\Program Files\FFmpeg For Audacity’ to PATH…
15:08:21: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘C:\Program Files\FFmpeg For Audacity\avformat-55.dll’.
15:08:21: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files\FFmpeg For Audacity\avformat-55.dll’ (error 193: %1 ist keine zulässige Win32-Anwendung.)
15:08:21: Loading avutil from ‘’.
15:08:21: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.)
15:08:21: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
15:08:21: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.)
15:08:21: Loading avformat from ‘C:\Program Files\FFmpeg For Audacity\avformat-55.dll’.
15:08:21: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘C:\Program Files\FFmpeg For Audacity\avformat-55.dll’ (error 193: %1 ist keine zulässige Win32-Anwendung.)
15:08:21: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
15:08:21: Returning PATH to previous setting: C:\Program Files\AdoptOpenJDK\jre-8.0.292.10-hotspot\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-16.0.1\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Tools\Binn;C:\Users\Tom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
15:08:21: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is ‘avformat-55.dll’.
15:08:21: Looking up PATH environment variable…
15:08:21: PATH = ‘C:\Program Files\AdoptOpenJDK\jre-8.0.292.10-hotspot\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-16.0.1\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Tools\Binn;C:\Users\Tom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps’
15:08:21: Temporarily prepending ‘;’ to PATH…
15:08:21: Checking for monolithic avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
15:08:21: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.)
15:08:21: Loading avutil from ‘’.
15:08:21: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.)
15:08:21: Loading avcodec from ‘’.
15:08:21: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘.dll’ (error 126: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.)
15:08:21: Loading avformat from ‘avformat-55.dll’.
15:08:21: Error: Failed to load shared library ‘avformat-55.dll’ (error 126: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden.)
15:08:21: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
15:08:21: Returning PATH to previous setting: C:\Program Files\AdoptOpenJDK\jre-8.0.292.10-hotspot\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-16.0.1\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Tools\Binn;C:\Users\Tom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
15:08:21: Error: Failed to find compatible FFmpeg libraries.
I don’t know how to fix this
Thanks in advance for your help!