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teckk

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[SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

8/29
If anyone else with Nvidia has mplayer break from upgrade.
On a i686 machine that I have, upgrading mesa, mesa-libgl, and nouveau-dri, broke mplayer with this error message

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c: 771: _dl_close: Assertion `map->l_init_called' failed!

I downgraded
mesa-libgl (9.2.0-1 => 9.1.6-1)
mesa (9.2.0-1 => 9.1.6-1)
nouveau-dri (9.2.0-1 => 9.1.6-1)

That put it back working. It did not effect the 64 bit machines, just the 32 bit machine.
I did not downgrade mplayer or mencoder, and ffplay was not affected.

[2013-08-29 17:15] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2013-08-29 17:15] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2013-08-29 17:15] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded bash (4.2.045-4 -> 4.2.045-5)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded wayland (1.2.0-1 -> 1.2.1-1)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] installed elfutils (0.155-1)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] installed llvm-libs (3.3-1)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa (9.1.6-1 -> 9.2.0-1)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded mesa-libgl (9.1.6-1 -> 9.2.0-1)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded cairo (1.12.14-4 -> 1.12.16-1)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded groff (1.22.2-3 -> 1.22.2-5)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded libmng (1.0.10-4 -> 2.0.2-2)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded mencoder (36285-3 -> 36285-4)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded mplayer (36285-3 -> 36285-4)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded nouveau-dri (9.1.6-1 -> 9.2.0-1)
[2013-08-29 17:17] [PACMAN] upgraded youtube-dl (2013.08.27-1 -> 2013.08.28.1-1)

Last edited by teckk (2013-08-31 17:04:14)

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

I know this isn't really a solution, but if you haven't taken a look at mpv, now sounds like it'd be a great time to do so. It's a fork of mplayer and mplayer2 and is really fabulous.

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rufus

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

dunno why you didnt just downgrade mplayer... I like smplayer or rosa

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teckk

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

Downgrading mplayer was the first thing that I did.
That gave

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libmng.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I downgraded libmng too, didn't help. Different error.

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libmng.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

After downgrading packages I determined that it was mesa, mesa-libgl and nouveau-dri which you have to do together.

Last edited by teckk (2013-08-30 02:38:48)

karol

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

Both mplayer and mplayer2 work on my up-to-date 32-bit Arch.

teckk

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

I just updated an AMDx2 machine and the update broke mplayer on it.
Had to rollback mesa, mesa-libgl and nouveau-dri.
You using Nvidia and nouveau, or nvidia's module?

karol

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

I'm using nvidia-173xx, it's one of the legacy drivers.

teckk

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

Ok, thanks, nouveau has caused several problems this last year. I'll look to see if I can find out anything more on this.

sas

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

I know this isn't really a solution, but if you haven't taken a look at mpv, now sounds like it'd be a great time to do so. It's a fork of mplayer and mplayer2 and is really fabulous.

Thanks for this recommendation!

On one computer I always had some strange problems with mplayer, that I never managed to solve (some OSD text not rendering, color errors etc).
Just installed mpv after I read your comment, and everything works great out of the box! Not to mention it has a nicer command-line interface, and no longer auto-unpauses playback on exiting fullscreen or similar actions (my most hated "feature" of mplayer).

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

no longer auto-unpauses playback on exiting fullscreen or similar actions (my most hated "feature" of mplayer).

This is one of the features of mplayer2 too.

battlepanic

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Registered: 2009-08-22

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

If anyone else with Nvidia has mplayer break from upgrade.
On a i686 machine that I have, upgrading mesa, mesa-libgl, and nouveau-dri, broke mplayer with this error message

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-close.c: 771: _dl_close: Assertion `map->l_init_called' failed!

I am also using the nouveau driver and I am running into what appears to be the very same problem after upgrading to mesa 9.2.0.

It looks like the issue is related to the libvdpau_nouveau.so library.  As a workaround, removing the library and it's associated symlinks makes video playback work again:

# rm /usr/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_nouveau.so*

The output of lspci shows my video card as the following:

$ lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV44M [GeForce Go 6200] (rev a1)

I've opened a bug report on this issue:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36754

Last edited by battlepanic (2013-08-31 16:24:09)

teckk

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

Ok thanks, that's good info. But instead of removing libraries from the machine, launching mplayer with

mplayer -vo xv ...

works with the machine up to date, for now until it's fixed.

I think I'll mark this solved. Mplayer isn't playing well with nouveau vdpau. I'll post back if/when an update fixes it.

karol

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Re: [SOLVED]Update breaks mplayer

Oh dear, you're right.
It indeed doesn't work w/o '-vo xv'. Output from mpv on a 32-bit Arch using [testing] and Intel graphics:

Detected file format: QuickTime / MOV (libavformat)
Clip info:
 major_brand: isom
 minor_version: 512
 compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
 encoder: Lavf54.59.106
[stream] Video (+) --vid=0 (h264)
[stream] Audio (+) --aid=0 --alang=eng (aac)
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
Segmentation fault (core dumped)