Problems with audacity, audacious (ffmpeg libavformat.so)

Question

Hi all,
I have this problem with audacious: it can't play mpc files (and maybe other formats) since it has an error with arch's current ffmpeg setup (everything is up-to-date here).
The error message it spits out is "ffaudio: Unsupported audio format 6"
I have an ffmpeg related problem with audacity too: when I try and open an mp4 file it says it can't, and if I look into edit -> preferences -> libraries -> ffmpeg import/export library, it says "ffmpeg library not found"; if I explicitly "select" /usr/lib/libavformat.so it doesn't recognize it as the lib it's looking for; same happens if I explicitly "select" /usr/lib/ffmpeg-compat/libavformat.so
Is there something I can do about this?
Thanks for any suggestion.
Last edited by pezcurrel (2013-06-02 11:18:37)

Answer 1

I solved the problem with audacity by manually linking ffmpeg-compat's libavaformat.so lib to it (audacity depends on ffmpeg-compat, not on ffmpeg, that's the one audacious depends on). I did it by editing ~/.audacity-data/audacity.cfg, "[FFmpeg]" section, changing it from...
Enabled=0
FFmpegLibPath=/usr/lib/libavformat.so
...to...
Enabled=1
FFmpegLibPath=/usr/lib/ffmpeg-compat/libavformat.so
Still looking for a solution to the problem with audacious.