Compatibility with newer FFMpeg lib

[webmailusr-msn]

Hello:

I wonder why Audacity (2.0.3) works only with avformat-52.dll and not newer versions.
I have another multimedia software which uses avformat-54.dll and I thought audacity could share it, but didn't accept it.

Thanks!!

[steve]

Audacity uses software "hooks" to integrate with the FFmpeg library. Unfortunately after FFmpeg version 0.8, the FFmpeg developers changed the hooks. In order to work with later versions there are two approaches that the Audacity developers can take. They could update the hooks in Audacity to match the later versions (a lot of work), or they can change the way that Audacity uses FFmpeg and access it as an external binary (also a lot of work). I think the plan is to take the second approach as it should make future upgrading easier, but either way it will require a significant amount of developer time to make the upgrade.