Audacity and movie files (ffmpeg)

[vylaern]

Hi,

I use linux Gentoo and Audacity for a long time. Usually I use Audacity to improve my audio in my movie files (.MOV or .mp4). Tonight in Gentoo, as a part of update to 2.0.3 it was removed ffmpeg flag, so I am unable to load any of .MOV or .mp4 files and after eg. using Import Raw I have only a white noise. I was trying to downgrade to 2.0.0 but Gentoo no longer support Audacity with ffmpeg. Is there any chance I can use Audacity as I used to? Maybe other flags support movie files?

* Found these USE flags for media-sound/audacity-2.0.0:
U I
+ + alsa : Adds support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
+ + flac : Adds support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec
- - id3tag : Enables ID3 tagging with id3tag library
- - jack : Adds support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit
- - ladspa : Enables the ability to support ladspa plugins
- - libsamplerate : Build with support for converting sample rates using libsamplerate
- - midi : Enables MIDI support
+ + mp3 : Add support for reading mp3 files
- - soundtouch : Enables soundtouch library support for pitch and tempo changing
- - twolame : Enables twolame support (MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoder)
- - vamp : Enables vamp plugins support (Audio analysing plugins)
+ + vorbis : Adds support for the OggVorbis audio codec

[steve]

Which version of FFMpeg do you have installed?

[Gale Andrews]

If Gentoo have removed system FFmpeg as it sounds like, you'll have to uninstall Audacity (if it is a packaged build you downloaded somewhere), build and install FFmpeg yourself then build and install Audacity yourself.



Gale