Re: [Audacity-quality] New release candidate is out now

[Steve F. <ste...@gm...>]

Testing on Ubuntu 20.04, RC1 AppImage fails to load FFmpeg:

20:14:41: Audacity 3.0.3
20:14:41: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries...
20:14:41: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is
'libavformat.so.55'.
20:14:41: Checking for monolithic avformat from 'libavformat.so.55'.
20:14:41: Error: Failed to load shared library 'libavformat.so.55' (error
0: Success)
20:14:41: Loading avutil from ''.
20:14:41: Error: Failed to load shared library '.so' (error 0: Success)
20:14:41: Loading avcodec from ''.
20:14:41: Error: Failed to load shared library '.so' (error 0: Success)
20:14:41: Loading avformat from 'libavformat.so.55'.
20:14:41: Error: Failed to load shared library 'libavformat.so.55' (error
0: Success)
20:14:41: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
20:14:41: Error: Failed to find compatible FFmpeg libraries.
20:15:16: Attempting to load LAME from system search paths
20:15:16: Loading LAME from libmp3lame.so.0
20:15:16: Actual LAME path /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0
20:15:16: LAME library successfully loaded
20:28:13: Looking for FFmpeg libraries...
20:28:13: mLibAVFormatPath is empty, starting with path '', name
'libavformat.so.55'.
20:28:18: User canceled the dialog. Failed to find FFmpeg libraries.
20:28:18: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries...
20:28:18: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is
'libavformat.so.55'.
20:28:18: Checking for monolithic avformat from 'libavformat.so.55'.
20:28:18: Error: Failed to load shared library 'libavformat.so.55' (error
0: Success)
20:28:18: Loading avutil from ''.
20:28:18: Error: Failed to load shared library '.so' (error 0: Success)
20:28:18: Loading avcodec from ''.
20:28:18: Error: Failed to load shared library '.so' (error 0: Success)
20:28:18: Loading avformat from 'libavformat.so.55'.
20:28:18: Error: Failed to load shared library 'libavformat.so.55' (error
0: Success)
20:28:18: Error: Failed to load FFmpeg libraries.
20:28:19: Error: Failed to find compatible FFmpeg libraries.

Steve

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 20:20, Bill Wharrie <bi...@go...> wrote:

>
>
> On 2021/06/28, at 1:09 PM, Peter Sampson <pet...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 5:53 PM Martin Keary via Audacity-quality <
> aud...@li...> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Our release candidate (3.0.3) is now ready for testing.
>>
>> *Download*
>> https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity-devel.html
>> or
>> https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-3.0.3-RC1
>>
>
> I have had to make some changes today to the Manual as a result of the
> decision to
> release Audacity 3.0.3 as a 64-bit app on Windows, including in particular:
>
> https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Installing_Effect,_Generator_and_Analyzer_plug-ins_on_Windows
> Some other pages were affected too.
>
> And many thanks to David Bailes for catching that.
>
> Also Bill Wharrie has updated the Spectrogram View page
> https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/Spectrogram_View
> Thanks for that Bill.
>
>
> I finished uploading the images with the new default colour scheme about 2
> hours ago. Still waiting for the changes to propagate through the cache (or
> whatever) to make sure it looks right.
>
> — Bill
>
>
> Since these changes were made after RC1 had been build these changes will
> not
> be in the Manual in the app for RC1.
>
> This implies that an RC2 will be required to get an up to date, accurate,
> Manual in the 3.0.3 app.
>
> Peter.
>
>
>
>
>
>> ---
>>
>> *New Features*
>> Here is a link
>> <https://alphamanual.audacityteam.org/man/New_features_in_this_release> to
>> our New Features wiki.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> *Issues installing on Windows*
>> You may be shown a warning when installing on Windows, which will inform
>> you that the file is from an unknown developer and will require an extra
>> step to confirm the installation. This is a known problem, which will be
>> resolved in a few days.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> *Bugs / Issues*
>> We are moving to a new system for collecting and prioritising bugs on GitHub
>> issues <https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues>. We'd really
>> appreciate it if you could log any issues you find there.
>>
>> However, if you'd prefer to log issues on the traditional bugzilla page,
>> we will also keep track of these too.
>>
>> Thanks very much!
>> Martin
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