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Bitwig apparently needs libav


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I'm trying to give Bitwig-studio a try but I'm running in to lots of problems getting it to work with flac files (wav files work but it seems that it converts flacs to wav in a temp directory). 

 

When running from the terminal it says it cannot find avprobe so I symlinked that with ffprobe. Then it said that it can't find avconv so I symlinked that with iconv. Now I am getting the following when I try to open a flac file: 

apache.commons.vfs2.FileNotFoundException: Could not read from "file:///home/alex/.BitwigStudio/cache/samples/1680B2374B43B71396BEAA1DD194197B/playback-temp.wav" because it is not a file.	at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractFileObject.getInputStream(AbstractFileObject.java:1291)
	at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.DefaultFileContent.getInputStream(DefaultFileContent.java:411)
	at eFP.a(SourceFile:13)
	at eFM.e(SourceFile:167)
	at eFM.d(SourceFile:144)
	at eFM.c(SourceFile:117)
	at com.bitwig.flt.sample_analysis.f.run(SourceFile:1330)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/alex/.BitwigStudio/cache/samples/1680B2374B43B71396BEAA1DD194197B/playback-temp.wav (No such file or directory)
	at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
	at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.local.LocalFile.doGetInputStream(LocalFile.java:236)
	at org.apache.commons.vfs2.provider.AbstractFileObject.getInputStream(AbstractFileObject.java:1283)
	... 6 more
java.io.IOException: Could not generate wav file: ffmpeg exited with exit code 64
	at com.bitwig.flt.sample_analysis.b.b(SourceFile:1369)
	at com.bitwig.flt.sample_analysis.b.a(SourceFile:1268)
	at com.bitwig.flt.sample_analysis.b.a(SourceFile:1127)
	at com.bitwig.flt.sample_analysis.b.a(SourceFile:65)
	at com.bitwig.flt.sample_analysis.i.run(SourceFile:1480)
	at g.run(SourceFile:160)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

So now I'm wondering if I just don't have something enabled in ffmpeg because it seems like it is finding what it needs but that just isn't working. Here are the use flags I have for ffmpeg in case there is something I'm missing: 

- - 3dnow                 : Use the 3DNow! instruction set
 - - 3dnowext              : Enable manually-optimised routines using the AMD 3DNow!Ex SIMD
                             instruction set, present in modern AMD CPUs. (Check for
                             3dnowext in /proc/cpuinfo to know whether your CPU supports
                             it). 
 + + X                     : Add support for X11
 - - aac                   : Enable support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio
 - - aacplus               : AAC+ encoding via media-libs/libaacplus.
 + + alsa                  : Add support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound
                             Architecture)
 - - amr                   : Enables Adaptive Multi-Rate Audio support
 - - amrenc                : Enables Adaptive Multi-Rate Audio encoding support with
                             media-libs/vo-amrwbenc.
 - - avx                   : Adds support for Advanced Vector Extensions instructions
                             (Intel Sandy Bridge, AMD Bulldozer and later chips)
 - - avx2                  : Adds support for Advanced Vector Extensions 2 instructions
                             (Intel Haswell and later chips)
 - - bindist               : Enforces license compatibility constraints via REQUIRED_USE.
 - - bluray                : Enable playback of Blu-ray filesystems
 + + bzip2                 : Use the bzlib compression library
 - - cdio                  : Enables audio CD grabbing with dev-libs/libcdio.
 - - celt                  : Adds Xiph CELT audio decoding support via media-libs/celt
 - - cpudetection          : Enables runtime CPU detection (useful for bindist,
                             compatibility on other CPUs)
 - - debug                 : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output.
                             If you want to get meaningful backtraces see
                             http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
 - - doc                   : Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended
                             to enable per package instead of globally
 + + encode                : Add support for encoding of audio or video files
 - - examples              : Install examples, usually source code
 - - faac                  : Use external faac library for AAC encoding
 - - fdk                   : Use external fdk-aac library for AAC encoding
 + + fftools_aviocat       : cat's a URL to another one, useful for dumping streams.
 + + fftools_cws2fws       : converts cws files (Macromedia Flash, compressed) to fws ones
                             (Macromedia Flash, uncompressed).
 + + fftools_ffescape      : Escapes an input string, adopting the av_get_token() escaping
                             logic.
 + + fftools_ffeval        : A simple expression evalutor.
 + + fftools_ffhash        : Computes a file's digest using libavutil algorithms.
 + + fftools_fourcc2pixfmt : Shows the relationships between rawvideo pixel formats and
                             FourCC tags.
 + + fftools_graph2dot     : A tool to convert a libavfilter graph to a dot file.
 + + fftools_ismindex      : A tool for creating smooth streaming manifests.
 + + fftools_pktdumper     : Dumps packets as demuxed by libavformat.
 + + fftools_qt-faststart  : Rearranges a Quicktime file to facilitate network streaming.
 + + fftools_trasher       : Writes burts of random data into a file. Great for testing
                             error robustness/resilience/concealment.
 - - flite                 : Adds a text-to-speech filter based on app-accessibility/flite.
 - - fma3                  : Enables FMA3 optimizations: AMD processors starting with
                             Piledriver architecture and Intel Haswell based processors or
                             later.
 - - fma4                  : Enables FMA4 optimizations: AMD processors starting with
                             Bulldozer architecture.
 - - fontconfig            : Support for configuring and customizing font access via
                             media-libs/fontconfig
 - - frei0r                : Enable frei0r wrapping in libavfilter
 - - gme                   : Enables support for media-libs/game-music-emu for playing
                             various video game music formats.
 - - gnutls                : Add support for net-libs/gnutls (TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 support)
 - - gsm                   : Add support for the gsm lossy speech compression codec
 + + hardcoded-tables      : Use pre-calculated tables rather than calculating them on the
                             fly.
 + + iconv                 : Enable support for the iconv character set conversion library
 - - iec61883              : Support for FireWire DV/HDV input device using
                             media-libs/libiec61883.
 - - ieee1394              : Enable FireWire/iLink IEEE1394 support (dv, camera, ...)
 - - jack                  : Add support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit
 - - jpeg2k                : Support for JPEG 2000, a wavelet-based image compression
                             format
 + + ladspa                : Enable the ability to support ladspa plugins
 - - libass                : SRT/SSA/ASS (SubRip / SubStation Alpha) subtitle support
 - - libcaca               : Add support for colored ASCII-art graphics
 - - libsoxr               : Enables audio resampling through media-libs/soxr.
 - - libv4l                : Uses media-libs/libv4l for video4linux instead of direct
                             calls. Adds support for more devices via the userspace
                             library.
 + + mmx                   : Use the MMX instruction set
 - - mmxext                : Enables mmx2 support
 - - modplug               : Add libmodplug support for playing SoundTracker-style music
                             files
 + + mp3                   : Add support for reading mp3 files
 + + network               : Enables network streaming support
 - - openal                : Add support for the Open Audio Library
 + + opengl                : Add support for OpenGL (3D graphics)
 - - openssl               : Enables dev-libs/openssl support. Adds support for encrypted
                             network protocols (TLS/HTTPS).
 - - opus                  : Adds (decoding) support for the Opus codec via
                             media-libs/opus.
 - - oss                   : Add support for OSS (Open Sound System)
 - - pic                   : Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower)
 - - pulseaudio            : Add support for PulseAudio sound server
 - - quvi                  : Adds support for playing media from Internet services using
                             the quvi project.
 - - rtmp                  : Enable Real Time Messaging Protocol using librtmp
 - - schroedinger          : Enable Dirac video support (an advanced royalty-free video
                             compression format) via libschroedinger (high-speed
                             implementation in C of the Dirac codec).
 - - sdl                   : Add support for Simple Direct Layer (media library)
 - - speex                 : Add support for the speex audio codec (used for speech)
 + + sse                   : Use the SSE instruction set
 + + sse2                  : Use the SSE2 instruction set
 - - sse3                  : Use the SSE3 instruction set (pni in cpuinfo)
 - - sse4                  : Enables SSE4 optimizations: Intel Core microarchitecture and
                             AMD K10 or later.
 - - sse4_2                : Enables SSE4.2 optimizations: Nehalem-based Intel Core i7 or
                             later.
 - - ssh                   : Enable SSH/sftp support via net-libs/libssh.
 - - ssse3                 : Faster floating point optimization for SSSE3 capable chips
                             (Intel Core 2 and later chips)
 - - static-libs           : Build static versions of dynamic libraries as well
 - - test                  : Workaround to pull in packages needed to run with
                             FEATURES=test. Portage-2.1.2 handles this internally, so don't
                             set it in make.conf/package.use anymore
 - - theora                : Add support for the Theora Video Compression Codec
 + + threads               : Add threads support for various packages. Usually pthreads
 + + truetype              : Add support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts
 - - twolame               : Enables MP2 encoding via media-sound/twolame as an alternative
                             to the internal encoder.
 - - v4l                   : Enable support for video4linux (using linux-headers or
                             userspace libv4l libraries)
 - - vaapi                 : Enables VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) for hardware decoding
 - - vdpau                 : Enable the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
                             acceleration interface
 + + vorbis                : Add support for the OggVorbis audio codec
 - - vpx                   : Enables vp8 codec support using libvpx: Decoding vp8 does not
                             require this to be enabled but libvpx can also be used for
                             decoding; encoding vp8 requires this useflag to be enabled
                             though.
 + + wavpack               : Add support for wavpack audio compression tools
 - - webp                  : Enables WebP encoding with media-libs/libwebp.
 - - x264                  : Enable h264 encoding using x264
 - - x265                  : Enables HEVC encoding with media-libs/x265.
 - - xvid                  : Add support for xvid.org's open-source mpeg-4 codec
 + + zlib                  : Add support for zlib (de)compression
 - - zvbi                  : Enables media-libs/zvbi based teletext decoder.
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I decided to do a little investigating, although I suspect you've already learned as much as I have because I saw your post on kvraudio.com. At this point, I'd just recommend emerging media-video/libav and see if that fixes the issues you're having. I'm not certain, but you may have to unmerge media-video/ffmpeg because I don't think those two packages can coexist (of course I may be wrong; I've never tried).

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Yeah I was trying to cover all my bases really, I wasn't sure where the best place would be to get help. 

 

That's a great idea paddymac, I didn't think of trying that for fear of messing up my system. I just tried it though and it does work perfectly. You're correct, both can't co-exist, at least not with portage. So I'm not sure where to go from here, I have some packages that rely on ffmpeg so I suppose I need to look if they can use libav instead. Perhaps it would be just easier to convert all my samples to .wav but I would prefer not to do that really. 

 

The suggestion in the kvr thread made me wonder, could I have ffmpeg installed through portage but compile libav manually in to /usr/local? 

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hey brother what's up! , i'm a bedroom producer, i have a big interest on pro-audio, and i really want to have bitwig running on my funtoo, could you tell me your procedure to install it??, i already have copied everything of the deb package on it's place, but when i try to launch it it give me this error:

bitwig-studio: symbol lookup error: /opt/bitwig-studio/bin/libx11-windowing-system.so: undefined symbol: xcb_shm_attach_checked

any suggestion to solve-it??

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I'm having another look at this and installed it from the ebuild (according to the funtoo wiki) but apparently there is still a problem concerning libav even when using the -libav use flag. Flac files are still not able to be used which is annoying because my whole sample library is in flac now. I think when I was trying the demo previously I managed to get it working by locally compiling libav and installing it in to /usr/local/ but that feels very messy. I was really hoping by now they (the bitwog guys) would have done something about this.

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