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Megarock90

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Registered: 2012-01-18

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[SOLVED] Audacity cant find FFMPEG

Got greeted by that warning window today so went to check.
When opening 'Preferences' > 'Libraries' it states "FFmpeg library not found", and here's the weird thing, no matter what I do, it keeps saying not found, I've pointed it to libavformat.so, libavformat.so.60, libavformat.so.60.3.100 on both /lib and /lib64 but it just refuses to load. Any ideas?

Both FFmpeg and Audacity are up to date (6.0-4 and 3.2.5-2 respectively)

Last edited by Megarock90 (2023-04-04 17:11:24)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Audacity cant find FFMPEG

On my system both ffmpeg and ffmpeg4.4 are installed, and audacity does find the needed libraries . The numbers it lists on the libraries tab suggest it looks for libavformat.58.76.100 which does come from ffmpeg 4.4 .

Try installing ffmpeg4.4 , if that does help please create a bug report to have the optional dep changed.

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sekret

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Re: [SOLVED] Audacity cant find FFMPEG

I've reported this already: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77828

Megarock90

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Registered: 2012-01-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Audacity cant find FFMPEG

Yeah that did it.
I'm assuming this is upstream stuff? any particular reason it doesn't use 6.0?