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gdesilva

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Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

mplayer failure

Just noticed that after upgrades mplayer no longer starts up. When running from command line the error message is that it cannot find /usr/lib/libx264.so.112

Checking /usr/lib indicates that the file available is libx264.so.119 obviously after an upgrade of a package. I copied libx264.so.119 to libx264.so.112 and mplayer then starts without any problem.

While this fixes the immediate problem it would be nice to have mplayer look for libx264.so.119 instead of libx264.so.112

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: mplayer failure

I installed mplayer and mplayer-svn both start/run OK.

Try doing a clean install of mplayer.

Side issue:

mplayer-svn has no sound.

Cook log:

http://cook.slitaz.org/cooker.cgi?pkg=mplayer-svn

Checking for ALSA audio ... no

No alsa-lib-dev in BUILD_DEPENDS

gdesilva

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Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: mplayer failure

@mojo,

Removed mplayer and re-installed but it still fails to start up without /usr/lib/libx264.so.112

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: mplayer failure

You do know any fix would just symlink libx264.so.119 to libx264.so.112 right?

bellard

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: mplayer failure

Can you update mplayer from mirror ?

libx264.so.119 and sound should be fixed I hope.

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: mplayer failure

mplayer-svn sound is fixed.

gdesilva

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Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: mplayer failure

@Trixar_za, certainly, this is not a problem for me as I renamed libx264.so.119 and everything is working perfectly well but it does not look good if everyone else has to go through the same problem and fiddle with the file names to get mplayer to work. I suspect this is a trivial fix and hence worth fixing it.

@Bellard, downloaded from tuxfamily.org and forced installation but the result is the same - ie. if libx264.so.112 is not there it fails to start up.

EDIT : The version from http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/slitaz/packages/cooking/ works!

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: mplayer failure

It's better to symlink than rename though. Other programs might look for the old file that isn't there now

gdesilva

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Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: mplayer failure

@Trixar_za - I did not rename libx264.so.119 but simply made a copy of it with the name libx264.so.112. I agree, symlink would have been a more elegant way of doing it. However, now that there is version of mplayer which looks for libx264.so.119 as mentioned earlier there is no necessity to have libx264.so.112 in any form and I have got rid of libx264.so.112.