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chriseggroll

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Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 64

Smplayer Can't Play .mkvs

So I was trying to watch a movie in smplayer and I get several errors:

libpng14
libx264.so.119
libstdc++.so.6

seem to be requirements, and for the first two I have newer and the third I have older...after making links to satisfy all those I get this:

/usr/bin/mplayer: /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14: version `PNG14_0' not found (required by /usr/bin/mplayer)

Apparently, the link from my newer version of libpng did not solve this problem, any way to fix this without downgrading libpng?

allen875

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From: Winchester, VA

Registered: 2011-09-02

Posts: 46

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Re: Smplayer Can't Play .mkvs

it sounds to me like a file linking issue, like smplayer is looking for a file with a particlular name and it is not there so I looked thru my filesystem and noticed that my libpng is libpng15 so try upgrading first then we will move on from there.

pacman -S libpng

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Smplayer Can't Play .mkvs

So I was trying to watch a movie in smplayer and I get several errors:

libpng14
libx264.so.119
libstdc++.so.6

seem to be requirements, and for the first two I have newer and the third I have older...after making links to satisfy all those I get this:

/usr/bin/mplayer: /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14: version `PNG14_0' not found (required by /usr/bin/mplayer)

Apparently, the link from my newer version of libpng did not solve this problem, any way to fix this without downgrading libpng?

first of all, fully update your system with pacman -Syu

second, do pacman -Qo mplayer and if it has other name than mplayer, i suggest to switch to mplayer from extra.

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skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,680

Re: Smplayer Can't Play .mkvs

Check your mirror and try

pacman -Syyu

Edit: Too slow.  Again

Last edited by skunktrader (2012-02-17 10:14:13)

chriseggroll

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Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 64

Re: Smplayer Can't Play .mkvs

Hmm, I had mplayer-x installed instead of mplayer which was the issue.  Was hoping for a little benefit of the doubt on having tried updating my system before creating a bunch of symlinks but thanks.  This problem had occurred after a recent update, sorry I didn't mention that, but all good now.  I used to use Totem almost exclusively, but I can't get it to disable my screensaver (xscreensaver), so I use smplayer and vlc mostly now.