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

[Reinhard Tartler]

retitle 593162 Audacity fails to load libavformat52/FFmpeg 0.6: undefined symbol: match_ext
tags 593162 upstream

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 05:12:08 (CEST), Aaron Barany wrote:

> I installed the appropriate ffmpeg packages from both testing and
> experimental. Audacity did load the ffmpeg modules from testing, but it gave
> the same error (missing the symbol match_ext) with the experimental version.

Just as I feared, it seems that audacity uses internals of FFmpeg that
it is not supposed to do. Luckily, av_match_ext has been exported now,
so that it seems to me that this bug can be fixed with some little patching.

Thanks for reporting back!

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4