Re: [Audacity-devel] FFmpeg on Windows

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Leland <le...@au...> 
| Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:24:39 -0500
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] FFmpeg on Windows
> --On June 8, 2008 7:10:01 PM +0100 James Crook <cr...@in...> wrote:
> 
> > Should import.cpp include "Experimental.h" to enable FFmpeg on Windows?
> > It's not currently clear to me how to get FFmpeg functionality under
> > Windows.  For the 15th June build it should be on by default.
> >
> Uncomment the "USE_FFMPEG" line in configwin.h and delete the "#undef 
> USE_FFMPEG" line in the same file.  We should probably get rid of that 
> second line permanently.
> 
> >
> > On your wiki page, can you (or Richard) give instructions for trying out
> > FFmpeg on Windows for a correctly compiled windows exe?  What extra DLLs
> > do I need, and where do I put them?  What's a simple test to see that it
> > is working correctly for me?
> >
> I've uploaded a simplified version of the library to:
> 
> http://audacity.homerow.net/index.php?dir=windows
> 
> I didn't try to get fancy with enabling/disabling this or that format.  I 
> got what the ffmpeg folks consider GPL whether its audio or video. 
> Besides, video files have audio, so there's no reason not to be able to 
> load the audio stream.
> 
> Anyway, the readme file shows what I did.
> 
> Put the dll where ever you keep them and try importing a WMV or similar.

Thanks Leland, for now I just added a link to your single dll on:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=FFmpeg


Gale