FFmpeg on Audacity for Big Sur 11.0 M1 chip

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Mikado
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FFmpeg on Audacity for Big Sur 11.0 M1 chip

Post by Mikado » Sat Jan 09, 2021 1:58 am

Hello - I'm trying to add FFmpeg to Audacity 2.4.2. I've followed all the instructions, but I am now in a loop. The FFmpeg library ended up in Library/ApplicationSupport/audacity/libs. No squiggle in front of the path. So I guess it's in the wrong place. And so Audacity keeps looking. The screenshots below will show the loop. How do I get the FFmpeg installed? Thanks.
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I click locate...
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Audacity finds the location. I click OK ,back to #1
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Or I click browse.Highlight. Click open
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And I'm back to browse
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Re: FFmpeg on Audacity for Big Sur 11.0 M1 chip

Post by billw58 » Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:07 am

Look at your third screen-shot. That's the LAME library, not the FFmpeg library. Try again to install the FFmpeg library.
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Mikado
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Re: FFmpeg on Audacity for Big Sur 11.0 M1 chip

Post by Mikado » Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:09 am

Thanks. It works now :-)
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Re: FFmpeg on Audacity for Big Sur 11.0 M1 chip

Post by tommybender » Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:07 pm

Where did you find the FFMPEG library compiled for arm64? I am able to build an FFMPEG binary for arm64, but I'm not able to created a dynamically link-able library as required by Audacity to convert file formats.

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Re: FFmpeg on Audacity for Big Sur 11.0 M1 chip

Post by steve » Mon Feb 15, 2021 12:22 am

tommybender wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:07 pm
 Where did you find the FFMPEG library compiled for arm64?
I assume that this is so that you can use it on an M1 Mac?
Does this not work? https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... html#macff
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