Bug#593162: marked as done (audacity: Audacity fails to load libavformat)

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:25:12 (CEST), Aaron Barany wrote:

> Just to provide a bit more information, I'm using debian-multimedia, which
> is why my ffmpeg libraries are newer than what's in the standard debian
> repositories. This thread on Audacity forums (
> http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=28048) documents the
> problem, and also includes a patch. According to that thread, the change
> appeared in ffmpeg 0.5.1. If I'm reading the version numbers correctly, both
> debian-multimedia and experimental have ffmpeg 0.6 (with slightly newer
> version in debian-multimedia),

the package distributed by debian-multimedia is not based on ffmpeg 0.6,
it is just horribly and confusingly named. It is based on SVN trunk,
were a lot of development is going on, and such compatibility bugs still
need to be found and ironed out. Christian Marillat is obviously not
helping with that at all.

> and the standard squeeze install has 0.5.1.  (which also means that
> the standard squeeze libraries might experience the same problem)

And I've asked you to check this. Until this happens, I'd agree to leave
this bug closed.

> I would prefer not to try to install a different version of the libraries
> since I don't have any experience working with different repositories like
> that, especially since I would have to deal with the dependencies.

Well, for exactly reasons like this, I find installing libraries from
3rd party repositories problematic at least.

> (I'm mainly worried about getting everything back together again when
> I'm done...) If somebody could try it on a standard testing and/or
> experimental install that would be great.

Well, you've reported an imcomplete bug, and I've told you what
information is missing. It would be great if you could help with filling
the gaps.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4