Comment 34 for bug 1076928

Steve wrote in email to me as we discussed this:

>It's been a long time since I attempted to build against the libav project,
>but I've never managed to get this to work, even when carefully following
>our documentation and using the versions stated.
>
>I have always disagreed with Gale's assertion that users should manually build
>and install an obsolete version of FFmpeg in order to use FFmpeg with Audacity.
>If Audacity is to remain a mainstream application on Linux, it must work
>against system library versions that are commonly found in current versions of
>Linux. For common libraries, distribution maintainers will attempt to build
>Audacity against system libraries. If Audacity does not work when built that
>way, it will be dropped from their repository, and Audacity will no longer be
>a mainstream application for Linux, and would essentially become
>Windows / Mac only.
>
>Currently, Audacity builds against the system version of FFmpeg on Ubuntu 16.04.
>The last time I checked, it also worked with Ubuntu 18.04, so both of the
>current "LTS" versions of Ubuntu appear to be covered for now.

I agree with Steve's assertion:
>I have always disagreed with Gale's assertion that users should manually build
>and install an obsolete version of FFmpeg in order to use FFmpeg with Audacity.

Accordingly I shall close this as not a bug