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

[Aaron Barany]

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

I agree it's not ideal, but unfortunately there's some functionality that
isn't present in the main repositories. (for example, a build of gtkpod that
supports AAC)

> And I've asked you to check this. Until this happens, I'd agree to leave
> this bug closed.
> It would be great if you could help with filling
> the gaps.

Since that's the case, I can try both the testing and experimental versions,
but most likely it will be this weekend or the next when I have the time.

Aaron

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Gruesse/greetings,
> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
>
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