1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista

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1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista

Post by dattrax » Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:07 pm

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
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Re: 1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista

Post by steve » Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:04 pm

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
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Re: 1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista

Post by Copius » Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:46 am

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.

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Jim
I'm seeing exactly the same behaviour. Vista SP1 Audacity 1.3.6 As soon as I try and access Preferences = Crash!
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Re: 1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista

Post by dattrax » Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:00 pm

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
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Re: 1.3.6 (beta) Broken in Vista

Post by raymer » Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:44 am

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
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