Re: [Audacity-devel] New builder for FFmpeg on Windows

[Leland <le...@au...>]

On 3/20/11 7:13 PM, Martyn Shaw wrote:
> OK, tried it again.  After about an hour or so it stopped.  I now have
> C:\Audacity\FFmpeg_v0.6.1_for_Audacity_on_Windows_Build\FFmpeg_v0.6.1_for_Audacity_on_Windows
> containing:
> avcodec-52.dll
> avformat-52.dll
> avutil-50.dll
> ffmpreg.exe
> gpl-v3.txt
> swscale-0.dll
>
> which looks like I have rebuilt 5.2, not 6.1?  So some progress at least!
>
Actually, this is correct.  The number on the DLLs is the API version, 
not the FFmpeg release.  So, the build really did work!  Cool!

> Nothing in C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Martyn except .bash_history.
>
That's exactly what to expect.

> If I go to prefs->Libraries->FFmpeg Library:->Locate...->Yes I see the
> location of the one I downloaded some time ago.  If I select the new
> one I see no difference in the version string on the dialog.
>
You would need to apply the patch from here:

http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176

To allow usage of Ffmpeg 0.6.1.

Thanks much for giving it a go.

Leland