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Pixol

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Registered: 2026-08-14

Posts: 3

Audacity not seeing ffmpeg

Audacity stopped seeing ffmpeg library. Even when I select libavformat.so through preferences it still says FFmpeg library not found

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,300

Re: Audacity not seeing ffmpeg

Post actual, literal errors, do not paraphrase.

Pixol

Member

Registered: 2026-08-14

Posts: 3

Re: Audacity not seeing ffmpeg

Okay? When I import video file to convert to audio it says:
"Could not oppen file x: Incorrect filetype" I then get another error:
"x is an Advanced Audio Coding file. Without the optional FFmpeg library, Audacity cannot open this type of file. Otherwise, you need to convert it to supported audio format such as WAV or AIFF". Audacity, lame and ffmpeg are present and updated to their latest version. I reinstalled them just in case with pacman -Syu

Lone_Wolf

Administrator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,340

Re: Audacity not seeing ffmpeg

After getting that error message, please run (as root/with root rights))

# journalctl -b  | curl -s -H "x-random;" --upload-file - 'https://paste.c-net.org/'

It will upload the journal for your current boot to a public pastebin and output a link, post that link.

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Pixol

Member

Registered: 2026-08-14

Posts: 3

Re: Audacity not seeing ffmpeg

After getting that error message, please run (as root/with root rights))

# journalctl -b  | curl -s -H "x-random;" --upload-file - 'https://paste.c-net.org/'

It will upload the journal for your current boot to a public pastebin and output a link, post that link.

https://paste.c-net.org/xbgb67cuvnoy