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Re: Can't find system FFMpeg when building 2.2.2 on Ubuntu 18
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 10:25 pm
by smartflutist661
I'll definitely look into 2.3.1. I use Python a bit more often than Perl, so I'll start with that. I'm not planning on doing anything that should be particularly complicated (yet).
Re: Can't find system FFMpeg when building 2.2.2 on Ubuntu 18
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 10:38 pm
by steve
smartflutist661 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 10, 2019 10:25 pm
I use Python a bit more often than Perl, so I'll start with that.
That's good. Python is now the recommended language for scripting with mod-script-pipe. I'd recommend using Python 3 (Python 2 is rapidly becoming obsolete).
When you get the Audacity 2.3.1 source code, take a look in "scripts/piped-work/" at the file "pipeclient.py".
Also, here's a short Python script that you may find useful for experimentation (you will need to remove the ".txt" from the file name):