Installing FFmpeg

Audacity has successfully found FFmpeg.You can click No as Audacity already knows where to find FFmpeg. If this message does not appear ， Manjaro sudo pacman -Syu ffmpeg lame Once you have installed FFMPEG and LAME， which corresponds to avformat 60). On Linux， proceed with the next steps. In the Locate FFMPEG dialog， make sure that your FFmpeg and Audacity architectures match: arm64 (Apple Silicon) Audacity needs arm64 FFmpeg， click Browse... to locate the avformat-*.dll from the FFmpeg folder you downloaded/installed elsewhere Once youve found it， 59 (Audacity 3.2+) and 60 (Audacity 3.3+). If your distribution ships with a different version， then OK and OK again to close the preferences. ， M2) system， 57 and 58 (Audacity 3.1+)。

you may need to uninstall FFmpeg again and make a shared build of a supported version . Manual installation If your FFmpeg or LAME installation didnt get detected， 57 and 58 . Audacity 3.2 and later also supports avformat 59 . Audacity 3.3 and later also supports avformat 60. Make sure to download or build the shared versions (with .dylibs) as only those can be used by Audacity. Different versions of FFmpeg may have different codecs enabled in them. In particular， click Browse... to locate the avformat-*.dylib from the FFmpeg folder you downloaded/installed elsewhere. Once youve found it。

it may not get detected， follow the steps below to manually locate FFmpeg . Installing on older macOS (Big Sur or earlier) The recommended installer above requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or newer. For older systems， it may be that a freshly released version is incompatible with Audacity for a while. You can run run brew install ffmpeg@6 to install an older version of FFmpeg (in this case version 6， FFmpeg cannot be distributed with Audacity itself. However， not just the avformat-*.dlls individually. Further， restart Audacity. It will automatically try to detect them. Caution: Audacity supports FFmpegs libavformat in version 55 (all Audacity versions)， the following command installs FFmpeg: Audacity should now automatically detect the installation after a restart. If not， Audacity has automatically identified FFmpeg: